[Feature] Adjust Widget Transparency & Color

[seniorm0ment]

Requesting ability to adjust the transparency of the widget, as well as the text, progress bar, and background colors

[starry-shivam]

Simply allowing to adjust transparencies of widget or it's components will just cause confusion and bad UX, since we need to use different color tone for texts and other components when widget is transparent so now i need to allow user to change colors aswell, which tbh doesn't adds much value considering the time and effort it'll take to implement something like this, current widgets already follows your system accent colours with material you support and looks pretty good imho.

[starry-shivam]

Also please follow issue templates when creating a new issue, they are here for a reason and makes things easier to understand in first go instead of wasting time in having to ask details which could be just filled in the issue template itself.

[seniorm0ment]

Apologies about the issue template, they do not show up at all on Fasthub's app.

Just a side note about the issue, many widgets do offer the ability to adjust the transparency and colors. Which in this case, makes it so the user has multiple widgets that have transparency, and then this one which is solid and looks out of place. While not a practical issue, it is a aesthetic issue imo. While it may not annoy some, it will annoy others and just being able to have that option to have consistency between all my widgets would be very nice. It allows the user to see the wallpaper, and just feels a bit less cuttered imo.

It would be nice to see this, maybe not high priority but reopened and considered for the future.
Of course it's just a suggestion though.

[starry-shivam]

Can you show some example/screenshot of how this transparent widget should look like? maybe i can just add two widgets with different styles i.e. one transparent one filled, and user can pick whatever they prefer.

[seniorm0ment]

If I may suggest a bit of a better solution than just a screenshot. SimpleMobileTools's widgets just try one of them and play with it for a minute so you can actually get a feel.
https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/Simple-Notes

The notes app is a simple one. Just make a test note in the app, then create a widget on your screen for simple notes.
It will then launch a simple options menu where the user can select the opacity of the widget, and then the color of the text.

His Calendar app has some titling and icons in his widget which you may like to see how it shows up.

The ability to adjust the opacity is huge seeing fully transparent will cause stuff to get lost against certain backgrounds as well as being able to match the widgets opacity against other app's widgets. And allowing the user to adjust the colors would solve any issues with text blending in as well.

[laaledesiempre]

Hi there. maybe this idea does'nt fit but with the issue about adding transparency, maybe you can add a text shadow that goes straight forward background opacity, an example, if background opacity is 0 shadow is 1, if its 0.2, text shadow would be 0.8, this can solve problems with letters colors in most cases, i dont know how hard is to apply this and, as starry-shivam says. maybe is too much work for only more ux/ui problems it could lead, but also is pretty astethic how it looks in Simple Notes!. Have nice day!

[starry-shivam]

Hi there. maybe this idea does'nt fit but with the issue about adding transparency, maybe you can add a text shadow that goes straight forward background opacity, an example, if background opacity is 0 shadow is 1, if its 0.2, text shadow would be 0.8, this can solve problems with letters colors in most cases, i dont know how hard is to apply this and, as starry-shivam says. maybe is too much work for only more ux/ui problems it could lead, but also is pretty astethic how it looks in Simple Notes!. Have nice day!

I'll have a look when i start working on this, thanks for dropping a suggestion, have a good day.