feat: add qt window transparency

core/interface/dialogs/settings.py

@@ -60,6 +60,21 @@ def settings_dialog(self):
         autoresume_layout.addWidget(autoresume_checkbox)
         dialog.layout().addWidget(autoresume_container)
 
+
+        # transparent window checkbox
+        transparent_window_container = QWidget()
+        transparent_window_layout = QHBoxLayout()
+
+        transparent_window_checkbox = QCheckBox()
+        transparent_window_container.setLayout(transparent_window_layout)
+        transparent_window_layout.addWidget(QLabel("Window Transparency (requires restart): "))
+
+        transparent_window_layout.addStretch()
+        transparent_window_checkbox.setChecked(state.window_transparency)
+        transparent_window_checkbox.toggled.connect(lambda checked: setattr(state, 'window_transparency', checked))
+        transparent_window_layout.addWidget(transparent_window_checkbox)
+        dialog.layout().addWidget(transparent_window_container)
+
         ##################
         # SERVER SETTING #
         ##################

core/interface/gui.py

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ from PySide6.QtWidgets import (
     QWidget,
     QVBoxLayout,
     QListWidget,
-    QToolBar,
     QLabel,
     QHBoxLayout,
     QComboBox,
@@ -16,13 +15,10 @@ from PySide6.QtWidgets import (
     QMessageBox,
     QTableWidget,
     QTextEdit,
-    QStyle,
-    QStyleOptionButton,
     QStyledItemDelegate,
-    QApplication,
 )
 
-from PySide6.QtGui import QIcon, QAction, QCloseEvent, QImage, QPixmap
+from PySide6.QtGui import QIcon, QCloseEvent, QImage, QPixmap
 import darkdetect
 import threading
 import platform

core/utils/config/config.py

@@ -6,8 +6,19 @@ from core.utils.data.state import state
 def create_config():
     config = configparser.ConfigParser()
 
-    config["General"] = {"debug": True, "api_url": f"{state.api_url}", "download_path": f"{state.download_path}", f"download_speed_limit": f"{state.down_speed_limit}", f"upload_speed_limit": f"{state.up_speed_limit}", 
+    config["General"] = {
-                         "ignore_updates": f"{state.ignore_updates}", "image_path": f"{state.image_path}", "autoresume": f"{state.autoresume}", "max_connections": f"{state.max_connections}", "max_downloads": f"{state.max_downloads}"}
+        "debug": True,
+        "api_url": f"{state.api_url}",
+        "download_path": f"{state.download_path}",
+        "download_speed_limit": f"{state.down_speed_limit}",
+        "upload_speed_limit": f"{state.up_speed_limit}", 
+        "ignore_updates": f"{state.ignore_updates}",
+        "image_path": f"{state.image_path}",
+        "autoresume": f"{state.autoresume}",
+        "max_connections": f"{state.max_connections}",
+        "max_downloads": f"{state.max_downloads}",
+        "window_transparency": f"{state.window_transparency}",
+    }
 
     if platform.system() == "Windows":
         config_dir = os.environ.get("APPDATA", os.path.expanduser("~\\AppData\\Roaming"))
@@ -48,5 +59,6 @@ def read_config():
     state.autoresume = config.getboolean("General", "autoresume", fallback=state.autoresume)
     state.max_connections = config.getint("General", "max_connections", fallback=state.max_connections)
     state.max_downloads = config.getint("General", "max_downloads", fallback=state.max_downloads)
+    state.window_transparency = config.getboolean("General", "window_transparency", fallback=state.window_transparency)
 
     create_config()

core/utils/data/state.py

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ class AppState(QObject):
         self.settings_path: str = None
         self.dl_session: Any = None
         self.active_downloads: List[str] = {}
+        self.window_transparency: bool = False
 
     @property
     def image_path(self) -> str:

main.py

@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ from core.utils.general.wrappers import run_thread
 from core.utils.general.loghandler import split_data, check_completed
 from core.utils.config.config import read_config
 from PySide6 import QtWidgets
+from PySide6.QtCore import Qt
 import qdarktheme
-import darkdetect
 import threading
 import signal
 import argparse
@@ -22,11 +22,13 @@ args = parser.parse_args()
 
 def run_gui():
     app = QtWidgets.QApplication([])
-    if darkdetect.isDark:
-        app.setStyleSheet(qdarktheme.load_stylesheet("dark"))
-    else:
-        app.setStyleSheet(qdarktheme.load_stylesheet("light"))
     widget = MainWindow()
+    if state.window_transparency is True:
+        qdarktheme.setup_theme("auto", custom_colors={"background": "#00000000"})
+        widget.setWindowFlags(Qt.WindowType.FramelessWindowHint)
+        widget.setAttribute(Qt.WidgetAttribute.WA_TranslucentBackground)
+    else:
+        qdarktheme.setup_theme("auto")
 
     from core.utils.general.logs import set_main_window
     set_main_window(widget)

requirements.txt

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 requests==2.32.2
 PySide6==6.10.1
 beautifulsoup4==4.13.5
-darkdetect==0.8.0
+darkdetect==0.7.1
 pyinstaller==6.15.0
-pyqtdarktheme==0.1.7
+pyqtdarktheme==2.1.0
 aiohttp==3.13.0
 plyer==2.1.0
 psutil==7.1.0