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[Feature] Sidebars transparency setting to fix unreadable text

Open binvius opened this issue 9 months ago • 4 comments

It is very clear that you are one of, if not the, best dev for Spicetify. All of what you have created is truly phenomenal and extremely stylish, blowing everything else out of the water. So, thank you so much for such awesome work. (I have liked the repo on my various GitHub accounts as you are now one of my favourite devs!)

I did have a quick question/favour. I have spent 'literally' dozens of hours over the past weeks trying to make one very simple change to your excellent Galaxy theme but have run out of things to try so I am hoping you may be kind enough to provide some advice as, what has taken me dozens of hours, you could easily fix in a matter of seconds!

I use a snippet from the marketplace called 'Hover Panels' which floats the two side panels until the user holds their mouse near either edge of the screen, which makes each panel then appear. (I have become very accustomed to this 'auto-appear' behaviour having utilised it in Winamp, which I started using way back in the 1990s.)

The issue is that your beautiful Galaxy theme has transparent sidebars so when the 'Hover Panels' sidebars 'appear' from the screen edges, all of the sidebar text is unreadable as it's overlayed on top of the app's standard text underneath. (Hopefully, the attached screenshot example of the left sidebar, shows the unreadable text problem.)

To resolve this issue, I simply need to amend the transparency of the two sidebars. I have tried thousands of things, including lots of changes in the user.css from your repo but can't get anything to work. Also, I'm not sure if it is related at all but the instructions your readme kindly provides for 'Manual Installation,' request users to "add the file extension.js into the Extensions folder." I was unable to find that extension.js file and creating one myself resulted in a Powershell error of "Extension "galaxy.js" not found."

Anyways, back to the matter at hand. Brilliantly, you have provided a few toggle option settings for users such as 'Blur home bg' so it makes me wonder how easy it might be to add a slider or text input option such as: 'Set both sidebar transparency to: 0-100%' This not only would fix the issue for all 'Hover Panels' users but also excite all users who would like a little more contrast in colour/shade between their main centre window and the two sidebars.

Should that be too difficult, any advice at all as to how I can manually change the transparency of both sidebars would be massively appreciated. After so many hours pulling my hair out, you literally have no idea how much your help would mean to me so huge thanks in advance if you can spare a few seconds.

Cheers again and warmest regards

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binvius avatar May 20 '24 07:05 binvius