1924741 - Use mica effect for context menu

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Widget: Win32, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Kagami Rosylight [:saschanaz] (they/them)]

Windows 11 and Microsoft Edge has acrylic effect on context menu.

Comment 1

[Emilio Cobos Álvarez [:emilio]]

This is doable, with some effort... We'd need to apply the backdrop to popups as well, and then change our context menu hover effects and such too...

Comment 2

[Emilio Cobos Álvarez [:emilio]]

Attachment: Bug 1924741 - Add mica acrylic menu support behind a pref. r=#win-reviewers!,#theme!

The tricky thing is making the NCACTIVATE stuff reliable, but something
along these lines works if someone wants to hack on it.

Comment 3

[Emilio Cobos Álvarez [:emilio]]

Attachment: Screenshot

I don't have time to finish it right now but this is the effect, basically...

Comment 4

[Emilio Cobos Álvarez [:emilio]]

Attachment: Light mode menu

Comment 5

[Emilio Cobos Álvarez [:emilio]]

Attachment: Dark mode menu.

Comment 6

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/cc221f1c307e
Add mica acrylic menu support behind a pref. r=win-reviewers,desktop-theme-reviewers,rkraesig,dao

Comment 7

[Cristina Horotan [:chorotan]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/cc221f1c307e