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Contributing

Outline

Build Process High level overview

I won't go into the minor details of the theme building process, however I will talk about the high level details of what is accomplished.

All themes have a base template that they inherit from. Themes have the ability to choose their inherited parent. Each child has the ability to override any attributes defined by the parent. This mitigates any one-off issues for themes that are not captured by the global shared style.

Getting Started

If you haven't built a Python package before, then I would recommend going through this extension tutorial. This way you can become more familiar with the process as a whole.

Editing Themes

Editing Themes Required Software

  • Yarn package manager
  • Node 14
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Microsoft Edge

Initial Setup

Set up Yarn Globals

I heavily use Node/Typescript to build all of my themes, and I have a fair amount of global tools installed.

Just run

yarn global add typescript ts-node nodemon

Note: if you already have these globally installed please make sure you are up to date!

yarn global upgrade typescript ts-node

Get the Master Themes

Since this theme suite expands across multiple platforms, in order to maintain consistency of the look and feel across platforms, there is a central theme definition repository

This repository needs to be cloned as a directory called masterThemes. If you are running Linux/MacOS, you can run getMasterThemes.sh located at the root of this repository. This script does exactly what is required, if you are on Windows, have you considered Linux? Just kidding (mostly), you'll need to run this command

git clone https://github.com/doki-theme/doki-master-theme.git masterThemes

Your directory structure should have at least these directories, (there will probably be more, but these are the important ones to know).

your-workspace/
├─ doki-theme-web/
│  ├─ masterThemes/
│  ├─ buildSrc/

Inside the masterThemes directory, you'll want to make sure all the dependencies are available to the build scripts. To accomplish this, just run this command in the masterThemes directory.

yarn

Set up build source

Navigate to the buildSource directory and run the following command.

yarn

This will install all the required dependencies to run the theme build process.

You should be good to edit and add themes after that!

Theme Editing Process

I have too many themes to maintain manually, so theme creation/maintenance is automated and shared common parts to reduce overhead.

The standardized approach used by all the plugins supporting the Doki Theme suite, is that there is a buildSrc directory.

Inside the buildSrc directory, there will be 2 directories:

  • src - holds the code that builds the themes.
  • assets - defines the platform specific assets needed to build the themes. This directory normally contains two child directories.
    • themes - holds the application definitions
    • templates - if not empty, normally contains various text files that can be evaluated to replace variables with values. Some cases, they also contain templates for evaluating things such as look and feel, colors, and other things.

The buildSrc directory houses a buildDefinitions script that generates the application specific files necessary for apply the Doki Theme Suite. (NOTE you can't run buildThemes only I can, sorry!)

Web specifics

There are two files of importance. They can be found in buildSrc/assets/templates. The files, *.template, are the templates for common CSS that used for all themes.

These templates are evaluated as part of the theme building process. When you run this command in the buildSrc directory:

yarn buildDefinitions

This will:

  • build out the firefox and chrome manifest templates
  • Create the tab images for the chrome themes
  • Build the DokiThemeDefinitions.ts for both the masterExtension and Firefox extension.

Sometimes a particular theme has something that is just a bit off. Thankfully, there is a way to fix small one-off issues.

In the buildAssets/themes/definitions directory lives all the chrome definitions. These are used to override the defaults provided by the masterThemes

Here is an example that overrides the following:

  • The background placement
  • Search bar text color
{
  "id": "35422aa4-1396-4e76-8ec6-c5560884df22",
  "overrides": {
    "theme": {
      "colors": {
        "omnibox_text": "&accentColorDarker&"
      },
      "properties": {
        "ntp_background_alignment": "right"
      }
    }
  },
  "laf": {},
  "syntax": {},
  "colors": {}
}

Once changes are made, you can run the command below inside the buildSrc directory.

yarn buildDefinitions

Here is an example of a pull request that makes some edits. Be prepared, there's a ton of changes!

Creating New Themes

IMPORTANT! Do not create brand new Doki-Themes using the Web Plugin. New themes should be created from the original JetBrains plugin which uses all the colors defined. There is also Doki Theme creation assistance provided by the IDE as well.

Please follow the theme creation contributions in the JetBrains Plugin repository for more details on how to build new themes.

Creating Themes Required Software

Creating Setup

Theme Creation Process

This part is mostly automated, for the most part. There is only one script you'll need to run.

Application specific templates

Once you have a new master theme definitions merged into the default branch, it's now time to generate the application specific templates, which allows us to control individual theme specific settings.

You'll want to edit the function used by buildApplicationTemplate and appName defined here in your masterThemes directory.

In the case of this plugin, the buildApplicationsTemplate should use the chromeTemplate and appName should be chrome.

We need run the generateTemplates script. Which will walk the master theme definitions and create the new templates in the <repo-root>/buildSrc/assets/themes directory (and update existing ones). In the <your-workspace>/doki-theme-web/masterThemes run this command:

yarn generateTemplates

The code defined in the buildSrc/src directory is part of the common Doki Theme construction suite. All other plugins work the same way, just some details change for each plugin (especially for this plugin). This group of code exposes a buildDefinitions node script (NOTE you can't run buildThemes only I can, sorry!).

This script does all the annoying tedious stuff such as:

  • Evaluating the buildSrc/assets/templates from the templates and putting the manifiest.json files in the right place. See Web Specifics for more details.

Here is an example pull request that captures all the artifacts from the development process of imported themes .