Moodle plugins directory: Generate custom CSS for Moodle Mobile

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  Plugins bot

  Fri, Aug 28, 2020, 5:40 AM

  Approval issue created: CONTRIB-8224
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  Stuart Mealor

  Thu, Oct 29, 2020, 6:40 AM

  Hello Alison. Many thanks for making this plugin available, it is very useful.
  Can I ask for an improvement?
  Each option shows the current colour and the option to change it, e.g. #f98012 (Moodle orange)
  But of course there are many occurrences of the same colour, used I different locations.
  But it is quite difficult to work out which specific colour to change.
  (The number of occurrences provides a clue).
  But is it possible to display the 'definition' next to each color?
  e.g. it would show something like:
  Color to replace (top-header) #f98012
  This would make it a lot easier to change the correct location of each color.
  Thanks!
  Stuart.
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  Alison of Sheesania

  Thu, Oct 29, 2020, 10:45 PM

  Hi Stuart, glad you appreciated the plugin! Thanks for your suggestion for how to improve it. I actually ran into the same issue while I was developing the plugin and tried to figure out a way to provide a description/definition for each color. However, if I manually added a description for each color, I'd have to update the plugin every time the Moodle Mobile default CSS changed...and the only way I can think of to automatically generate a description instead is to show a list of the CSS rules that use the color, which as you can see would mean you'd have to scroll through hundreds of rules. (But if you'd find that useful regardless, let me know and I could add that.)
  
  The real problem is that the Moodle Mobile default CSS is a huge file auto-generated by a computer, so it doesn't have a lot of meaningful structure or descriptions. You might be able to find some description of what the colors are used for here: https://github.com/moodlehq/moodleapp/blob/master/src/theme/variables.scss However, there are several key colors which are not defined in that file.
  
  If it's helpful, as of today I'm just replacing these specific colors to retheme the app for my client:
  #f98012: primary color, Moodle orange
  #007982: secondary color, turquoise; used for some badges
  #e57611: darker orange used for activated primary-color buttons
  #14848c: lighter turquoise used for activated secondary-color buttons
  #fa9b44: lighter orange used for progress bars and some other things
  #fcc38e: very light orange used for toggle buttons
  
  However, as I said, the colors you need to change could shift with updates to the Moodle Mobile app.