Fusion is one of the built-in styles that Qt ships with, and that is
generally supported in all platforms and handles custom color palettes
properly.
The color palettes have been borrowed from the Dolphin Memory Engine
buddy application.
The new styles are:
- **Fusion Light**
- **Fusion Dark Gray**
- **Fusion Dark**
A demo of each style on Windows:
| System | Light | Dark | Fusion Light | Fusion Dark Gray | Fusion Dark |
| ------ | ----- | ---- | ------------ | ---------------- | ----------- |
| <img width="1920" height="1080" alt="Dolphin Emulator System style" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7f55a19d-d9a1-43d1-a435-1e1d5b29abe2" /> | <img width="1920" height="1080" alt="Dolphin Emulator Light style" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4c70f2f9-16b8-4777-b72b-55b2dffcd1e4" /> | <img width="1920" height="1080" alt="Dolphin Emulator Dark style" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5e669477-d2a5-4d19-b2c5-a2ed9bb1e6fe" /> | <img width="1920" height="1080" alt="Dolphin Emulator Light Fusion style" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b1f95c47-0691-4809-bd74-99e913c17684" /> | <img width="1920" height="1080" alt="Dolphin Emulator Dark Gray Fusion style" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c9d30aa3-f941-4fc5-806f-d3fbd2cae0cc" /> | <img width="1920" height="1080" alt="Dolphin Emulator Dark Fusion style" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/123d2125-e126-4e8c-aa42-793ded8ffacc" /> |
> [!NOTE]
> Notice that the **Light** and **Dark** styles remain available only on
> Windows due to limitations on how styles in the various platforms
> handle (or mishandle) custom color palettes.
> [!IMPORTANT]
> Due to [`KDE-511547`](https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511547),
> after having used Breeze (default style in Plasma systems), top tool
> bars in tools areas will lose their correct background color; a
> restart will be required in order to get the updated color in the main
> window.
>
> UPDATE: The issue has been fixed upstream and should be available in
> KDE Plama 6.5.3 and newer.
Trigraphs support is generally disabled by default, but some compilers
(e.g. GCC) may still warn when one hypothetical trigraph is encountered.
For example, one of these warnings was introduced as part of #14067:
```
.../Source/Core/DolphinQt/MainWindow.cpp:1433:77: warning: trigraph ??) ignored, use -trigraphs to enable [-Wtrigraphs]
1433 | this, tr("Select a File"), dialog_path, tr("All Save States (*.sav *.s??);; All Files (*)"));
|
.../Source/Core/DolphinQt/MainWindow.cpp:1445:77: warning: trigraph ??) ignored, use -trigraphs to enable [-Wtrigraphs]
1445 | this, tr("Select a File"), dialog_path, tr("All Save States (*.sav *.s??);; All Files (*)"));
|
```
The warning is generally not interesting and has been disabled now.
This is a hassle-free BBA option intended for local play with multiple
Dolphin instances running *in the same system*. After selecting
**Broadband Adapter (IPC)** in the **SP1** slot in the GameCube section
in the settings, games that support LAN play will be able to discover
each other, without requiring third-party software or relatively complex
TAP setups.
The implementation is based on cpp-ipc, a high-performance inter-process
communication library that uses shared memory as transport layer.
Supported platforms are:
- [x] Linux
- [x] Windows
- [ ] macOS (cpp-ipc does not support this platform)
- [ ] FreeBSD (cpp-ipc does not support this platform)
- [ ] Android (cpp-ipc needs some adjustments; while it could work,
launching two Dolphin instances within the same Android system may be
both challenging and impractical)
The `QtUtils::AdjustSizeWithinScreen()` function now centers the
widget on their parent window after the widget's size is adjusted. This
is required in some desktop environments (generally on Linux systems) to
ensure that the just-resized widget remains aligned with its parent
window.
The creation of the **Cheats Manager** dialog is now deferred to first
show, as creating it within the main window's constructor prevents the
dialog from knowing the real position of its parent window, which is
only properly calculated on first show.
For the same reasons, the analytics prompt is now shown only when the
application is ready (i.e. when the main window has been shown).
| Before | After |
| ------ | ----- |
| <img width="1920" height="1080" alt="[Dolphin Emulator] Misplaced analytics prompt" title="[Dolphin Emulator] Misplaced analytics prompt" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c3e43b3b-cf79-4398-b531-7de6068c583e" /> | <img width="1920" height="1080" alt="[Dolphin Emulator] Centered analytics prompt" title="[Dolphin Emulator] Centered analytics prompt" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a10d06d9-7438-4032-b96c-dfcb48826349" /> |
| <img width="1920" height="1080" alt="[Dolphin Emulator] Misplaced Settings dialog" title="[Dolphin Emulator] Misplaced Settings dialog" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f35b10ee-4f07-48d4-86f9-2537ad5ca7ca" /> | <img width="1920" height="1080" alt="[Dolphin Emulator] Centered Settings dialog" title="[Dolphin Emulator] Centered Settings dialog" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/33e37237-77a4-44f6-a0e2-b709f65b672b" /> |
| <img width="1920" height="1080" alt="[Dolphin Emulator] Misplaced Cheats Manager dialog" title="[Dolphin Emulator] Misplaced Cheats Manager dialog" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1fbd3836-5639-4d5a-b57e-e2e21f21c9db" /> | <img width="1920" height="1080" alt="[Dolphin Emulator] Centered Cheats Manager dialog" title="[Dolphin Emulator] Centered Cheats Manager dialog" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3f2b1b50-de16-49b7-bac4-c444c6cab0bc" /> |
A new class that derives from `QMenu` has been introduced. Menus of this
`NonAutodismissibleMenu` type will stay visible when a _checkable_
action is triggered.
This is convenient in menus that feature a series of check boxes that
toggle visibility of third components (e.g. the **List Columns** menu),
allowing the user to toggle several actions at once.
For now, the new type is used in the top menu bar.
Gecko codes in Dolphin feature a dedicated field for the creator of the
cheat code. When saved into the INI file, the code name and the creator
name are concatenated, and then inserted in the `[Gecko]` section:
```ini
[Gecko]
$<cheat code name> [<creator>]
<code line 1>
<code line 2>
<code line 3>
<...>
$<other cheat code name> [<creator>]
<code line 1>
<code line 2>
<code line 3>
<...>
```
On the other hand, enabled codes are listed under the `[Gecko_Enabled]`
section, but in this case the creator name is omitted from the line:
```ini
[Gecko_Enabled]
$<cheat code name>
$<other cheat code name>
```
Having the creator name in the `[Gecko]` section but not in the
`[Gecko_Enabled]` section is arguably not ideal, but this is legacy
behavior in Dolphin.
The **Cheat Code Editor** dialog is not acknowledging this subtle
behavior in Dolphin: the cheat code name and the creator name *can* be
both inserted in the name field. This issue manifests as an inconsistent
state where a Gecko code that *appears* to be enabled has no effect when
the game is launched.
As part of this fix, the creator name (if present) is now moved into the
dedicated creator field before the code is stored internally.
Test plan:
- Right-click on any game and open the **Properties** dialog.
- Switch to the **Gecko Codes** tab.
- Press the **Add New Code...** button.
- In the **Cheat Code Editor** dialog:
- Enter `This is a test [Jane Doe]` in the **Name:** field.
- Enter `01234567 00000000` in the **Code:** field.
- Press **Save**.
- Observe that the newly added code is now in the list, and *appears* to
be enabled.
- Close the **Properties** dialog.
- Right-click on the same game and open the **Properties** dialog again.
**Without** the fix, the newly added code, while still on the list, has
been inadvertently disabled (it was never really enabled!).
**With** the fix, the newly added code is the list and remains enabled.
This fixes https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/13695.
A number of settings in the `debugger` group were wrongly using a newly
constructed `QSettings` object instead of the singleton object that
`GetQSettings()` provides.
This made the application create a spurious, extra configuration file in
the user directory:
```
~/.config/Dolphin Emulator/dolphin-emu.conf
```
Notice that, by default, the application configuration files are stored
in `~/.config/dolphin-emu`; not in `~/.config/Dolphin Emulator`.
cristian64