On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 12:38 AM, Graham Cox <graham....@bigpond.com> wrote:

> It's not just pointless eye-candy, it's actually contrary to usability. In 
> Safari, I'd come to the conclusion that the window frame "tint" was an 
> indication of whether you were in a private session or a non-private one, but 
> after some time realised that the "tint" was merely an effect of what colour 
> the content of the web page happened to be that had been scrolled up behind 
> the title bar. A small thing, but nevertheless misleading.
>
> It's also completely arbitrary; what meaning does having a blurry translucent 
> background in a souce list (but not for other window content) actually 
> convey? The whole idea should be canned before it becomes more pervasive. 
> It's already a nuisance and causes numerous graphics glitches (e.g weird 
> black outlines around a non-active progress bar when on a vibrant 
> background). Developers have better things to worry about.

The problem is that when these issues were reported (*) just after the
first Yosemite seed, the Radar tickets were quickly closed as "Behaves
as expected".

* including the suggestion to not enabled Vibrancy for apps built with
previous OS X SDKs.

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