In future we could add a customisable dark filter on top for easier reading gamelist itself in as a sort of pseudo dropshadow that movie subtitles would do.

The current form limits the usecase to less viable screenshots.

But it's good for now to add some more personality (or make people crazy with meme images)

Yeah i do hope to add some kind of brightness/opacity option (or drop shadow for texts if viable) and cropping mode in the future.

Works quiet well! (Arch linux based distro)

I remember I previously said this could be implemented by subclassing QStackedWidget and overriding the paint event. I think I may have been overthinking that, what you're doing is probably fine (edit: actually, the palette approach does have issues, see below).

A few things I noticed:

• The option to clear the background image currently doesn't work for me. It looks like it's because of an incorrect if (path.empty()) check right at the start of GameListWidget::setCustomBackground.
• The background is currently being drawn by the viewport widgets inside the QTableView and GameListGridListView widgets rather than the QStackedWidget itself (verified with GammaRay) since the palette is inherited. This means that the space for the image is ever so slightly different depending on which one is visible (hence with the table view the bottom of the image is getting cut off slightly as it's offset by the header).

A few things I noticed:

• The option to clear the background image currently doesn't work for me. It looks like it's because of an incorrect if (path.empty()) check right at the start of GameListWidget::setCustomBackground.

Whoops you were right, that check was too aggressive. I'll fix it later.

• The background is currently being drawn by the viewport widgets inside the QTableView and GameListGridListView widgets rather than the QStackedWidget itself (verified with GammaRay) since the palette is inherited.

I'm not sure how to reach the QStackWidget itself. I did use the setPallete on the m_ui.stack but apparently its not correct?

I'm not sure how to reach the QStackWidget itself. I did use the setPallete on the m_ui.stack but apparently its not correct?

I've done some testing and I can't seem to get it to work with the palette method either, I'm not sure why. I think subclassing QStackedWidget and drawing the pixmap in the paintEvent function should still work though. Just make sure to use drawTiledPixmap and pass in the invalidated region. You'll need to disable autoFillBackground on the viewports (e.g. QTableView::viewport).

I wonder if it could be possible to add support for animated webps (in a future PR). It would be quiet nice to have! Gif works too but gif is yucky

I wonder if it could be possible to add support for animated webps (in a future PR).

I don't think Qt can do that.

What if you decode the frames manually then update the background every few ms from a worker thread? 🤔

Animated WEBP and GIF now works!

Animated WEBP and GIF now works!

2025-06-08.14-51-36.mp4

NO WAY :0, I will test that later this day!

It works! Opacity also works and the "clear background" button works as well. (testing on linux)

Latest update, the entire custom background settings have been moved to Settings -> Interface. also added an option to fill the custom image to the available background space.

With these new changes, can I have testers retest?

Also macOS just in case works good there too

Supported Image Types (*.bmp *.gif *.jpg *.jpeg *.png *.webp) is untranslatable