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68 lines
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== Skinning refactor ==
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matrix-react-sdk
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- base images
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- base CSS
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- all the components needed to build a workable app (including the top layer)
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Element: the Element skin
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- Element-specific classes (e.g. login header/footer)
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- Element-specific themes
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- light
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- dark
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i.e. the only things which should go into Element are bits which apply vector-specific skinning
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specifically "Stuff that any other brand would not want to use. (e.g. Element logos, links, T&Cs)"
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- Questions:
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- Electron app? (should probably be a separate repo in its own right? but might as well go here for now)
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- index.html & index.js? (should be in matrix-react-sdk, given the SDK is useless without them?)
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ideally matrix-react-sdk itself should ship with a default skin which actually works built in.
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status skin (can go in the same app for now)
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- has status theme
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- which inherits from Element light theme
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- how do we share graphics between skins?
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- shove them into react-sdk, or...
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- guess we do ../../vector/img
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- this means keeping the skin name in the images (unless /img is a shortcut to the right skin's images)
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out of scope:
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- making the components more independent, so they can be used in isolation.
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- that said, the bits which should probably be used by being embeded into a different app:
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- login/reg
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- RoomView + RoomSettings
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- MessageComposer
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- RoomList
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- MemberList
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- MemberInfo
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- Voip UI
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- UserSettings
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- sharing different js-sdks between the different isolated modules
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other changes:
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- how do we handle i18n?
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- each skin should really be its own i18n project. As long as all the commonality stuff is in matrix-react-sdk this shouldn't be too bad.
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- ability to associate components with a given skin
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- skins/vector/src <-- components
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- skins/vector/css
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- skins/vector/img
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- skins/vector/fonts
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- gather together themes (per skin) into a single place too
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- skins/vector/themes/foo/css
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- skins/vector/themes/foo/img
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- skins/vector/themes/foo/fonts
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- ideally riot-web would contain almost nothing but skins/vector directory.
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- ability to entirely replace CSS rather than override it for a given theme
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- e.g. if we replace `Login.js` with `StatusLogin.js`, then we should similarly be able to replace `_Login.scss` with `_StatusLogin.scss`.
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random thoughts;
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- should we be able to change the entire skin at runtime (more like wordpress) - to the extent of replacing entire components?
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- might pose security issues if a theme can be swapped out to replace MatrixChat or other fundamental functionality at runtime
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- if so, perhaps skins & themes should converge...
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Immediate plan for Status:
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* Implement it as a theme for the Element skin
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* Ideally move skins to a sensible level (possibly even including src?)
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