Theming Element ============ Themes are a very basic way of providing simple alternative look & feels to the Element app via CSS & custom imagery. They are *NOT* co be confused with 'skins', which describe apps which sit on top of matrix-react-sdk - e.g. in theory Element itself is a react-sdk skin. As of Jan 2017, skins are not fully supported; Element is the only available skin. To define a theme for Element: 1. Pick a name, e.g. `teal`. at time of writing we have `light` and `dark`. 2. Fork `src/skins/vector/css/themes/dark.scss` to be `teal.scss` 3. Fork `src/skins/vector/css/themes/_base.scss` to be `_teal.scss` 4. Override variables in `_teal.scss` as desired. You may wish to delete ones which don't differ from `_base.scss`, to make it clear which are being overridden. If every single colour is being changed (as per `_dark.scss`) then you might as well keep them all. 5. Add the theme to the list of entrypoints in webpack.config.js 6. Add the theme to the list of themes in matrix-react-sdk's UserSettings.js 7. Sit back and admire your handywork. In future, the assets for a theme will probably be gathered together into a single directory tree. Custom Themes ============= Themes derived from the built in themes may also be defined in settings. To avoid name collisions, the internal name of a theme is `custom-${theme.name}`. So if you want to set the custom theme below as the default theme, you would use `default_theme: "custom-Electric Blue"`. eg. in config.json: ``` "settingDefaults": { "custom_themes": [ { "name": "Electric Blue", "is_dark": false, "fonts": { "faces": [ { "font-family": "Inter", "src": [{"url": "/fonts/Inter.ttf", "format": "ttf"}] } ], "general": "Inter, sans", "monospace": "'Courier New'" }, "colors": { "accent-color": "#3596fc", "primary-color": "#368bd6", "warning-color": "#ff4b55", "sidebar-color": "#27303a", "roomlist-background-color": "#f3f8fd", "roomlist-text-color": "#2e2f32", "roomlist-text-secondary-color": "#61708b", "roomlist-highlights-color": "#ffffff", "roomlist-separator-color": "#e3e8f0", "timeline-background-color": "#ffffff", "timeline-text-color": "#2e2f32", "timeline-text-secondary-color": "#61708b", "timeline-highlights-color": "#f3f8fd", "username-colors": ["#ff0000", ...] "avatar-background-colors": ["#cc0000", ...] } }, { "name": "Deep Purple", "is_dark": true, "colors": { "accent-color": "#6503b3", "primary-color": "#368bd6", "warning-color": "#b30356", "sidebar-color": "#15171B", "roomlist-background-color": "#22262E", "roomlist-text-color": "#A1B2D1", "roomlist-text-secondary-color": "#EDF3FF", "roomlist-highlights-color": "#343A46", "roomlist-separator-color": "#a1b2d1", "timeline-background-color": "#181b21", "timeline-text-color": "#EDF3FF", "timeline-text-secondary-color": "#A1B2D1", "timeline-highlights-color": "#22262E" } } ] } ``` `username-colors` is expected to contain 8 colors. `avatar-background-colors` is expected to contain 3 colors. Both values are optional and have fallbacks from the built-in theme. These are exposed as `--username-colors_0`, ... and `--avatar-background-colors_0`, ... respectively in CSS. All properties in `fonts` are optional, and will default to the standard Riot fonts.