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Custom background images with opacity slider/vignette #18691

Open Latrolage opened 3 years ago

Latrolage commented 3 years ago

Your use case

What would you like to do?

Custom background images for either each chat, or the whole page(or desktop application). With an opacity slider in settings.

If the user sets the background image to be on the whole page (or whole application) there could be an option to add shadows at places near for example, the border between the channels and chat. and the border between the "room info" sidebar and the chat and basically anywhere there is a major border. Maybe a shadow on the whole all all sidebars of just the border between sidebars would be good too.

Basically, wherever there is a sidebar that isn't the actual chat screen it could have some dimming/shadow/darkening on the background image. There could also just be shadows on the edges of sidebars instead of dimming the whole sidebar to indicate that it is, well... a sidebar

Why would you like to it?

Customisation.

How would you like to achieve it?

I have no idea

Have you considered any alternatives?

No response

Additional context

These are from a discord modification but most of the images are a good example. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=betterdiscord+background+images&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

SimonBrandner commented 3 years ago

Related: https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/16323

Palid commented 3 years ago

@nadonomy I think we recently talked about this, could you give your insight here? Don't want to make any mistakes in terms of design ideas.

barathrm commented 2 years ago

I think this would be pretty neat if background images can be set per room (not the same background image for all users, necessarily, just locally would be enough).

Why? It would allow users to immediately recognize a room by it's background image/pattern, making "wrong channel" messages less likely with all the privacy, QoL etc implications that would entail.

ShadowJonathan commented 2 years ago

FWIW, Telegram has global chat backgrounds, while i ofc would like something like per-chat user-local chat backgrounds, i think at least supporting setting a global background for all chat timelines in the app would be neat.

This could go together very nicely with the bubble layout.