Em Wed, 05 Oct 2022 09:33:16 -0600
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> escreveu:
> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > I would play with the sidebar options used by Alabaster in order to
> > try to make the TOC more useful.
>
> Definitely worth doing; I'm not sure how much flexibility there is
> there.
>
> I'd *really* like to avoid carrying our own theme if at all possible...
Yeah, agreed.
Btw right now if you don't have RTD installed, it will already fallback to
classic Sphinx-native theme, on a non-optimized way, as it will be using the
CSS wrote for RTD.
> The right solution might be to actually split the books apart and do the
> intersphinx thing; I've not really looked into that at all.
Yeah, we've been postponing using intersphinx for quite a while. Perhaps
we could start supporting it. One expected advantage would be to make
life easier when building just a single book, as intersphinx should keep
the cross-references working and it should not produce extra warnings due
to references that belong to other books.
> > On a side note, one thing I miss on all default themes is a way to dynamically
> > use dark mode. That's btw why I ended adding non-default support for
> > 'sphinx_rtd_dark_mode' (which also requires an external package). At the time
> > I added CSS/themes customization support to the build system, this was the only
> > theme that allowed to switch to either dark/light mode. It would be really cool
> > if Alabaster (or some other default themes) could honor the user's preference
> > between light/dark modes.
>
> Yeah, Alabaster doesn't seem to have that. Providing that ability in
> conf.py shouldn't be *that* hard to do; it doesn't use that many colors,
> though there might be a fair amount of CSS to override.
RTD dark mode [1] solves it in runtime using a CSS with:
html[data-theme='dark'] body {
color: #bfbfbf;
}
A JS sets "data-theme" to dark in order to activate it in runtime[1] with:
document.documentElement.setAttribute('data-theme', 'dark');
It also comes with a .py file that selects the default.
But yeah, there are a fair amount of CSS to override.
Also, I suspect that maintaining it can be a challenge. Not sure if it
worth the efforts.
[1] https://github.com/MrDogeBro/sphinx_rtd_dark_mode/tree/main/sphinx_rtd_dark_mode
Regards,
Mauro
