[09/04/22][LinkStage3][UI] VertUI / Midnight UI

[Petrikas]

I'll keep this thread updated, in case this becomes topical in the future.
Style-sheet download in the the first post.

Updated: 14/03/2021

Changelog:
- Small bug fix that made push-buttons overlap in some third-party add-ons

[Kunda1]

I'll keep this thread updated, in case this becomes topical in the future.

[Petrikas]

I made a really dumb script that changes the colour values in link.user.cfg automatically.
Since I have a test-sample of 1, I need someone else to give it a go.

https://github.com/StudioPetrikas/FC_Ve ... Colours.py
(Currently rewriting with an XML parsers for legibility)

Here's how to test it (on a clean install):
1. Copy the ProDark-Sidebar.qss to Stylesheets
2. Select ProDark-Sidebar in the Preferences in FreeCAD LinkStage3
3. Close FreeCAD LinkStage3
4. Open you FreeCAD user settings folder on your OS (C:\Users\---\AppData\Roaming\FreeCAD for Windows)
5. Make a backup copy of link.user.cfg
6. Copy the Colours.py into the same folder
7. Run the Colours.py script

This will change the viewport background colour, Console + Output colours and Sketcher colours.

[Kunda1]

Cool!

[Petrikas]

Small update:

I'm making a one click installer that will set all the colour values and set the toolbars vertical to the left.

I have discovered something interesting. If Persistent Toolbars is installed, the layout will be saved to both link.user.cfg AND the registry. But if I delete the registry keys, FreeCAD will load the layout from the .cfg file. Which is awesome!

That means, to have the Vertical UI theme, the installer needs to:
- Backup and Delete Qt registry keys (in progress)
- Backup link.user.cfg (done)
- Set Persistent Toolbar settings in .cfg (done)
- Set UI colours in .cfg (done)
- Set Output/Console colours in .cfg (done)
- Set Sketcher colours in .cfg (done)

The question now is, how frowned upon making an installer that would (first backup and then) delete the FreeCAD / QT registry keys? (they're made redundant by the Persistent Toolbar add-on.

Secondly, is there a correct procedure to automate "Persistent Toolbars" and "Toolbar Style" addons? Simply copying the folders to Appdata/FreeCAD/Mod works and is recognised by the Add-on manager. Or should the installer ask the user to do it manually via the add-on manager?

Progress so far for the curious:

sc 2021-03-21 15_44_31.jpg (428.25 KiB) Viewed 4069 times

[Kunda1]

This is so exciting! Thank you for your work on this!

The question now is, how frowned upon making an installer that would (first backup and then) delete the FreeCAD / QT registry keys? (they're made redundant by the Persistent Toolbar add-on.

No, in fact it's very close to my idea in issue #4443. Config files are really delicate and a lot effort goes in to them (personal interface customizations that take a long time to configure etc...) we definitely need to back them up if we're going to change them in any way.

Secondly, is there a correct procedure to automate "Persistent Toolbars" and "Toolbar Style" addons? Simply copying the folders to Appdata/FreeCAD/Mod works and is recognised by the Add-on manager. Or should the installer ask the user to do it manually via the add-on manager?

I think it's safe to directly clone from github. In the future we can make this smarter by triggering the addon manager in a different modal dialog with the addon in questions to install. but for now in this experimental stage keep it simple.

[Petrikas]

This is so exciting! Thank you for your work on this!

The question now is, how frowned upon making an installer that would (first backup and then) delete the FreeCAD / QT registry keys? (they're made redundant by the Persistent Toolbar add-on.

No, in fact it's very close to my idea in issue #4443. Config files are really delicate and a lot effort goes in to them (personal interface customizations that take a long time to configure etc...) we definitely need to back them up if we're going to change them in any way.

Secondly, is there a correct procedure to automate "Persistent Toolbars" and "Toolbar Style" addons? Simply copying the folders to Appdata/FreeCAD/Mod works and is recognised by the Add-on manager. Or should the installer ask the user to do it manually via the add-on manager?

I think it's safe to directly clone from github. In the future we can make this smarter by triggering the addon manager in a different modal dialog with the addon in questions to install. but for now in this experimental stage keep it simple.

Got it! Thanks for all the answers!

[Petrikas]

Deprecated. Discussion moved to https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=58747

[Meetlat]

Can't believe how small you have setup your screen even on my 4k 32 inch screen everything is extremely tiny in your video .

Anyhow it's nice that you're making a GUI for setting up the theme colors. It looks great! Perhaps you can offer different presets based a light or dark theme. See for similar discussion here: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 34#p490826

[Petrikas]

Can't believe how small you have setup your screen even on my 4k 32 inch screen everything is extremely tiny in your video .

Anyhow it's nice that you're making a GUI for setting up the theme colors. It looks great! Perhaps you can offer different presets based a light or dark theme. See for similar discussion here: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 34#p490826

Well, I'm also on a 32". With a 100% scaling in Windows. Not sure, doesn't look tiny to me. I even thought that the UI icons could get even smaller.