My Answer to "WHY ARE SOME OF MY TILES NOT TRANSPARENT??"

[unstoppablekem]

Forgive me if this has already been answered, but here it goes...

When you guys got 8.1 and added a wallpaper to your start screen, many of you wondered why not all of your tiles are transparent. Well, here are my two theories.

1. The developers made their own tile color:
Some apps, like is HERE Maps, have made their own color that they want to stay, so it really isn't your accent color. So unless the devs change it, this tile will not change color and/or be transparent.

2. Live tiles won't show very well with a transparent background:
Imagine looking at your Skype, WPC, or Weather live tile and trying to read all the information that the tile is showing. That would be most likely too hard to read. And some tiles have pictures and logos on it that have to remain the color it should be.

Well, that's my two cents.

 

[KrisJoeEll]

Agreed. But it will be cool to have a toggle (like Rudy Huyn's 6tag) to make it transparent.

Also I frigging love the new parallax effect. My friends with Android/iPhone are going nuts!

 

[Susmit257]

Yaa, my friends with android are also getting jealous seeing my start screen and they are amazed that low end phones like 520 performing so well with tons of features and specially Cortana , so happy to see this

 

[Laura Knotek]

What I've done is make the tiles that aren't transparent small, or I've just unpinned them. I replaced Weather Channel with Blue Skies. I also made WPC tile small. Since we have Action Center, I don't need to see what WPC tile shows.

 

[mariusfilip]

http://forums.windowscentral.com/wi...er-his-wonderful-app-he-seems-too-modest.html