Make notifications legible, and follow windows that ask for focus

The notification background was a 6% foreground tint over a transparent window, which meant it had nothing behind it at all: the card sat directly on whatever was on screen and the text competed with it. Notifications are the one surface someone reads without having chosen to look at it, so it now uses a real popover surface -- a little lighter than one you opened deliberately, because a toast arrives unbidden and full popover weight reads as a dialog demanding an answer. Windows that ask for attention are now switched to rather than merely highlighted, so a link opening on another workspace takes you there. That setting already existed and was simply off; it is a preference rather than a hardcoded behaviour, so it can be turned back off on the Desktop & Dock page. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BRvzt4H8XXLPVH5MyYdk9L
2026-08-19 17:05:37 -04:00
parent 6997dd535f
commit e290a262f3
2 changed files with 18 additions and 1 deletions
@@ -110,6 +110,13 @@ Singleton {
    // light one, and text on it stops being legible.
    readonly property real dockAlpha: root.dark ? 0.34 : 0.62
    readonly property real popoverAlpha: root.dark ? 0.92 : 0.97
+
+    // Toasts sit a little lighter than a popover you opened on purpose. A
+    // notification arrives unbidden over whatever you were doing, and at full
+    // popover weight it reads as a dialog demanding an answer -- but the 6%
+    // foreground tint it used to have left the text competing with the desktop
+    // behind it. This is the point between the two.
+    readonly property real toastAlpha: root.dark ? 0.86 : 0.94
    readonly property real overlayAlpha: root.dark ? 0.55 : 0.40
    readonly property real hoverAlpha: root.dark ? 0.14 : 0.10
    readonly property real activeAlpha: root.dark ? 0.24 : 0.18