Translucency - seeing something underneath, but not clearly; distorted
Transparency - seeing something underneath with no loss in clarity
You're talking about translucency.
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iPhone Does anyone else not like the new "dock"?
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Translucency - seeing something underneath, but not clearly; distorted
Transparency - seeing something underneath with no loss in clarity
You're talking about translucency.
WeegieMac
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FFS
The bloke above has full transparency, right now I get blurry colour matching wallpaper. I know you never said 100% but I was referring to the screenshot above which showed detail through his dock. Perhaps the 4S is only getting blurry colour match, not full transparency.
Transparency - allowing light to pass through. Is it a solid object or can you see thorugh it. You can't have translucency without transparency. But like I said, I was replying to WeggieMac's question of how the other person got a transparent dock.
The dock is both transparent and translucent.
WeegieMac
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Right, I get that. I wasn't asking for a lesson on how there are different levels of transparency (obviously), I was just making a passing reference that right now I see no detail in the dock on 4S, only a blurred colour match to the wallpaper . That's all!
You and I both get that, zbavarian does not.
FWIW were you talking about the screenshot that Jukens posted on page 1? If so it is def transparent and not translucent. Its backgrond is not blurred.
zbavarian, is Jukens' screenshot on page 1, the one being discussed, transparent or translucent?
WeegieMac
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Yeah that's the one. You can see actual graphical detail on the wallpaper, not just a blurred colour tint. Although the home page of Apple's site shown a 5 with the same blurred colour effect, yet the device compatibility list shows transparent docks. Ah well, it's only a beta.
I'm not sure which I prefer, but that does look nice. I tend to put patterns and textures as my wallpapers so a translucent dock looks as nice to me as a transparent one. I really wouldn't be able to say without using it.
Just a little link I found: http://grammarist.com/usage/translucent-transparent/
If the background isn't blurred, it's transparent.
So you were hasseling me for calling a transparent dock transparent? This is the one being discussed.
Is it transparent or translucent?
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Ugly Dock
I installed iOS 7 and the new Dock is the ugliest thing I've ever seen on a smart-phone. The Day-Glow green & red colors for the Call, SMS, Eall-End, Stocks... proves Apple has gone Nuclear decay, this Apple design team is rotten!
I'm downgrading back to iOS 6
I installed iOS 7 and the new Dock is the ugliest thing I've ever seen on a smart-phone. The Day-Glow green & red colors for the Call, SMS, Eall-End, Stocks... proves Apple has gone Nuclear decay, this Apple design team is rotten!
I'm downgrading back to iOS 6