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