Add optional snapping animations and a blurred snap preview - #1849
Add optional snapping animations and a blurred snap preview#1849kiteretsu903 wants to merge 11 commits into
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Rather than making a new default subclass, you'll want to use the DoubleDefault class, which allows an explicit zero.
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Thanks! This is great :) Looks like a merge conflict arose from another PR that I merged. Let me know if you need help resolving it. Also, if you don't mind, can you clean up some of the comments that are added in here, as it looks like some of them are more for train of thought understanding than necessary communication in the codebase? |
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On this note, I've given this a lot of thought prior to the PR, and one of the ideas I had for mitigating the limitations from the Accessibility API is to overlay a blurred window owned by Rectangle, move the actual window off the screen via Accessibility, resize the blurred window with native animation, then place the window at its destination as the animation concludes. This has its own set of usability issues, and doesn't work great for windows that don't fit the destination rect, but it might be worth exploring. Figured I'd mention it if you feel inclined to explore that route as well - no worries if not. |
Interpolate same-display resizing with a settling curve, preserve pending destinations for shortcut history, and let native dragging own position during size restoration. Respect Reduce Motion and keep existing mover fallbacks.
Use native blur with optional tint, a subtle outline, and an exterior shadow aligned at screen edges. Share the animation curve, respect reduced motion and transparency, and configure authored layers for SDR.
Add the two opt-in controls and their translations, and move haptic feedback into the left column.
Use Device Control and Data Access on macOS 27 and retain the earlier permission wording on older releases.
Only finish drag restoration on mouse-up when a window was actually being dragged. This prevents the drag monitor from prematurely settling a title-bar maximize or restore animation started by the same release event. Document that title-bar double-click uses the existing snap animation setting. Release build passed; live event ordering has not been reproduced.
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@rxhanson Hi, Ryan, Thanks for quick response@ |
Detect movement from current displayed bounds, preserve the original grab reference, and let restoration finish after mouse release. Add regression coverage and document the remaining far-right drag jumps.
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This adds two options in Snap Areas, both off by default: Animate windows (experimental) and Blur footprint.
Snapping and restoring use smooth transitions, and the existing footprint animation follows the same easing curve. The blurred preview adapts to light and dark mode, with a subtle outline and outer shadow. Its tint uses the existing color and alpha preferences, defaulting to zero.
Animation remains experimental because repeatedly updating size and position may cause issues in some edge cases. Animations respect Reduce Motion, and blur respects Reduce Transparency.
This also balances the checkbox layout and updates the permission wording for macOS 27.