Customizable background

[CHerSun]

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Currently app uses semi-transparent background when showing images. This is very distracting, as there are always a lot of things in background (wallpaper, other windows). There are no settings for window background, only B for transparent image (not what I mean).

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Is it possible to add window background customization? Like, color, transparency, acrylic effect, etc? Personally, I'd prefer non-transparent very dark grey solid color (nearly black, but not black - gives better edges view) for photos viewing, especially full-screen.

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Not sure, but could be related to #90

[Ruben2776]

I'm currently working on rewriting the whole project from WPF to Avalonia, so feature requests like this, and other works, will be applied to the upcoming Avalonia version. You can read more here .

I have updated new versions at https://picview.org/avalonia-download where there's new changes related to backgrounds:

• Background logic has been changed, so that it's the whole background, and not just the image
• More variants of background shades of grey, black and white

Being able to customize the background colors requires more work, and I'll have to make a redesign of the settings window first, but I'm planning on it in a future release.

[CHerSun]

I've tried avalonia-preview3 - didn't notice any difference for background. B does nothing for a random jpg.

Thank you for your work. I really like picview.

[Ruben2776]

Thank you for the kind words.

Pressing B changes the background, of the whole window now, instead of just behind the image, (which you'd only see if the viewed image had transparency). So if you don't have Auto fit enabled and resize the window to be bigger than the image, you'd see it.

[CHerSun]

My bad, looks like I didn't update executable path since preview2. Thank you, works now, this really helps. Do you want to close this issue or to keep it for settings options later?