Patent ID: 8059137

Claim:
A computer implemented method for rendering a desktop window in a graphical user interface of an operating system shell, comprising: receiving application content to display in a window in the graphical user interface; and displaying at least a portion of the application content in an opaque content portion of the window, the window having a translucent frame portion, wherein the translucent frame portion of the window comprises a likeness of glass, wherein displaying further comprises: applying a texture to a mesh, receiving a user input to resize the window, wherein resizing the window further comprises: dividing the mesh into three regions per mesh dimension, for each region, maintaining offsets to mesh vertices in any dimension by which the region is bounded by a bounding box of the window, and scaling mesh vertices in any dimension by which the region is not bounded by the bounding box of the window, and determining by a vertex resizing filter function the displacement direction and magnitude in each dimension for every member vertex.