ScreenPlay is an Open-Source Live Wallpaper and Widgets app for Windows & macOS (and soon Linux) written in modern C++/Qt/QML and is in active development since early 2017 on Gitlab.

You can download ScreenPlay via Steam for free!

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This release contains 4 months worth of work with nearly 400 changes, fixes and features. Thank you for all the contributors and community members for their support!

Rewritten Create screen with more wizards:

WebM Wizard: No need for long conversion when the video is already a webm! This also means user can use external tool like the excellent open source project handbreak for converting in bulk!

Gif Wizard: Import a gif as a Wallpaper!

Even more Wiazards:

• Website Wizard: A simple link for a website to display as a Wallpaper.
• QMl Wallpaper: Create interactive QML! You can use the Krita QML exporter to add easy animations to your drawn art! https://twitter.com/Kelteseth/status/1334918795979264000
• HTML Wallpaper: Use the power of Chromium to create awsome content
• Dozens of bug fixes as well as (not yet ready) Linux and OSX improvements
• We now use Qt 6 for our developer documentation generation. This fixes a ton of uncreated function documentation.
• Code cleanup. We now use a stackview with fancy new transition that are also more efficient!
• Monitor (un)plug detection: Displays a warning and removes the wallpaper for now!

Contributor

• poly000 Chinese translation

General

• a8433d3 Bump version to 0.13
• 489b00c Enabled high dpi scaling that now works again with 5.15.2 only!
• abc72f2 Refactor item to use threaded animation via Animator
• 75ec4b0 Replace Labs FolderDialog with Dialogs FileDialog
• 58362d8 Replace depricate SkipEmptyParts enum
• a16ad8a Add better startup animation and example text
• a3da07f Move footer to separate StartInfo
• 31a47fb Fix right click menu opening multiple timesAdd qstr to text. Fix folder deletion
• f6b02cf Add steam plugin load only on WorkshopThis should make it possible again to open ScreenPlay without Steam again!
• 536d262 Add doctest and google benchmark
• 206203f Add auto exit when using –benchmarkMaybe we should exit after we created the ScreenPlay app. Depends on what kind of benchmark we use in the future.
• 79dc835 Add links
• f29a65e Add shields
• b169e60 Add missing emit
• 1a63646 Fix monitorlistmodel on monitor plugged in or outAdd Dialog when it happens for the user to setup again
• c0f858c Add basic windows service
• 2a659b1 Fix not initialized QJsonParseError
• 1fde330 Fix live wallpaper editing
• 6e89828 Add user notification that one has to reconfigure setupWhen a monitor gets pluggin in or out
• 2d8c9f2 Merge branch ‘master’ of https://gitlab.com/kelteseth/ScreenPlay
• 3b558e2 Fix loadFromFile
• 626455c Replace custom loader with swipeviewMove Dialogs into dedicated files
• 5a36e32 Fix navigation item on open from hidden
• 5aa714a Add new common types and WizardPageHeadlineSection for smaller headlines like h3
  • TextField that behaves like the Material design text field
  • WizardPage that implements start and exit signals as well as a simple one page loader in a ScrollView
  • Clean root id names to root everywhere
  • Add prefix for Common includes to not mix with QQC2
  • TextField name to avoid collision
• https://gitlab.com/kelteseth/ScreenPlay/-/commit/bbb827e Add toLocal to remove file:///
  • Add generic LicenseSelector & Add Licenes for CC, GPL, Apache etc.
  • Add generic FileSelector
  • Add required flag to TextField
• ea367a7 Fix installed load on start
• 5d8a95e Fix fade in animation shadow
• c20f837 Fix website Wallpaper. Add https:// to wizard.
• 4063f5f Fix right click menu typeFix banner type. Must be var to be able to hold unsinged long long
• c823c52 Fix enum names and casings
• 5a8583c Fix steam workshopIDRefactor from int to QVariant that can hold unsinged long ling int that is needed because as of this writing steamid are now bigger than int
• dd0c4b1 Fix cmake vcpkg path
• 3b27096 Disable hover on scroll
• c9dfd9a Add positionViewAtBeginning when changing filter
• 4004b4c Add allow_failure: true for now
• 4c2cb43 Update CI to Qt 5.15.2
• 0671e10 Disable AV1 import for now
• 82ead02 Move StartInfo delegate into StartInfoLinkImageFix headlines lines Add drag and drop area
• 1085179 Add ColorPick by Alberto Bignotti
• 1a73f98 Fix wrong filename when using a filename with a dotRemove old labs fileselector
• d1d933b Decrease scale of preview because steam does not allow large previewsIn the docs it state 1mb, in the manual upload it states 2mb!?!
• f49fa0d Fix missing m_length for webm import
• 74db71d Fix incorrect navigation state and index
• 25a519c Fix workshop sidebar styling
• 9bbe61e Fix default folder for localStoragePath
• dd64e93 Fix UploadProject popup
• daa76b8 Add Steam Workshop Agreement
• cb34445 Remove duplicate header
• db40924 Fix font capitalization
• a8620f1 Fix qml and html preview image copy. Add errors emit to all returns
• 4c2b6db Refactor welcome screenRemove no longer needed seets
• ce1ea6f Add godot to the start info tools
• 7234edd Merge branch ‘Lucky-00-master-patch-10240’ into ‘master’Update README.md
• 33cb77e Fix small video detection
• ccb1d50 Fix webm importQML called it without the quality parameter. Lets make 50 default. This is not used in the webm import anyways…
• ffc1ccf Fix starting wallpaper that do not contain the properties json object
• 9defa00 Fix argument order for name and preview image
• 920a648 Fix type from QString to QUrl
• a8bcac9 Fix wallpaper autostart and add CriticalError msgThis was caused because we have the wrong base path QDir workingDir(QDir::currentPath()); instead of QDir workingDir(QGuiApplication::applicationDirPath()); when we start the app from a different folder.

Shader plugin

• ddad721 Add basic shader plugin
• fe2eb81 Add not working water shader
• f6c6cf8 Cleanup shadertoy shader and files
• 0fa5588 Add shadertoy shadertoy

Create Screen

• 53f7b27 Add basic Gif and Website wallpaper
• 550982e Fix webm import
• d153d3b Add quality slider to import convert
• 462d7ac Change ui to contain some tutorials
• e27481f Add basic new create screen
• 7e7b493 Remove unused Qt.labs.platform
• f386d10 Restore video import functionallity Add not working AV1 support
• 4c7770b Add basic webm import
• 1eff5f7 Add more example content sidebar menu
• 3bcc835 Add StartInfo useful links to projects and resources
• 494e227 Add startinfo content
• 02b25e1 Add gimp entry, hover zoom and some cleanup
• 7302b2e Refactor wizards into separate class & Add GifWallpaper
• 0fc1963 Fix wallpaper custom margin
• 79af968 Add description and tldr legal linksChange to custom LicenseSelector in every wizard
• f13b9b8 Add more wizards and wallpaper typesAdd WebsiteWallpaper
• dd361ee Change gif selection to clear on reset
• 393e48a Change FileSelector to not directly expose combobox alias
• a985666 Sort create categories into Code and Video
• 760e916 Change default license to Creative CommonsIncrease min width
• 6d65791 Add gif and website wallpaper to Installed Type enumAlso document where to change code when changing this enum
• 6939ee2 Make all wizards consitentUse same parameters and functions to copy files and create folder
• 9a5602d Change websiteWallpaper from source to url

Community

• 5a8a81f Enable CommunityNavItem steam workshop
• af646ba Add asynchronous load to Community

Welcome Screen

Building & CI

• 234300f Fix not existing folder
• 1a86a8c Fix ffmpeg download paths
• ecc9377 Fix required dev setup
• b5a5940 Add CMake dynamic configure_file for every file in /Common/ffmpeg/
• 29a2856 Update install_dependencies_windows.bat Now supports .7z Codex FFMpeg build extracting using 7-zip and msiexec.
• b5dae42 Add new ci build script and check stepThis is python based and is now functional for windows. We now should be able to extend this script for linux and mac. Move setup script to Tools folder.
• 72a5485 Move vcpkg out of ScreenPlay source treeThis has some advatages. For one QtCreator starts way faster because it queries ALL files in the source dir. This can take to minute long startup when using many packages. This makes some check python scripts easier to write.
• a367b22 Fix build paths
• 3ad6a61 Fix build pathAdd check if build type arg is missing
• 2311cda Format file with latest python 3.9 Apparently my python 3.6 install an old cmakelang
• 7e204d4 Update docs
• 05f9bc0 Update vcpkg to 26.12.20

Docs

• Overhauled developer documentation

• 52d38e2 Change qdoc version to Qt 6 because earlier version are unusable

• 86f9a75 Update Qt CI to 6.0.0

• 524bd10 Refactor developer docs because qodc is now useable with qt6

• aabaaaf Move Legal in Docs folder

Translations

• be1a17d Update ScreenPlay_zh-CN.ts
• 113e097 Update translations and add update script
• 0d90169 Add Chinese translations to UI
• dc82a8d update translations
• 997ec4f update translation
• aaa4e5d Update HowToUpdateTranslations.md
• b53fc68 Update chinese language file

Windows

• 3f4538e Fix sentry native missing crashpad_handler

Linux & OSX

• 6c7479f Remove sentry for all OS except win
• 2ed7bf2 Remove sentry package for linux for now
• 3c314b5 Add gold linker and add remove SysInfo for linux
• 64f527e Fix invalid code that wont compile under gcc
• 612f37c Add install_dependencies_linux_mac to CI
• e1f75d6 Add OSX
• b43769c Fix osx ci not executing command in shell
• f188e6e Fix osx compilation and CI
• 2ca6773 Fix build.py syntax
• 051a31a Fix casing and macos build
• 2e4a937 Fix missing snap
• 893eec7 Fix linux ci compilation
• bf1fa16 Add basic kde support
• da59b2f Add basic wallpaper logic to qml fileWe now use websocket for communcation. For this to work we must add the logic to the screenplaymanager class.
• 0153bee Add not yet working WebSocketServer
• d2080c2 Add initialization to QJsonParseError
• adfb82d Add missing WebSockets module
• 793b442 Fix Test.qml casing
• 06bc6b7 add linux script in bash
• 3a32074 Add development info for KDE wallpaper
• 9fa317a Fix osx build script