- Just a single huge commit. This has been developed over too long a
time, required many tiny changes across too many files and has seen too
many iterations to be separated into separate commits.
The original branch with all the messy commits will be kept around for
posterity
bb220ad0f2...adomasven:feature/react-item-tree
- Replaces XUL <tree> element across the whole zotero client codebase
with a custom supermegafast virtualized-table inspired by
react-virtualized yet mimicking old XUL treeview API. The
virtualized-table sits on top on a raw-to-the-metal,
interpreted-at-runtime JS based windowing solution inspired by
react-window. React-based solutions could not be used because they were
slow and Zotero UI needs to be responsive and be able to
display thousands of rows in a treeview without any slowdowns.
- Attempts were made at making this screen-reader friendly, but yet to
be tested with something like JAWS
- RTL-friendly
- Styling and behaviour across all platforms was copied as closely as
possible to the original XUL tree
- Instead of row-based scroll snapping this has smooth-scrolling. If
you're using arrow keys to browse through the tree then it effectively
snap-scrolls. Current CSS snap scroll attributes do not seem to work in
the way we would require even on up-to-date browsers, yet alone the ESR
version of FX that Zotero is on. JS solutions are either terrible for
performance or produce inexcusable jitter.
- When dragging-and-dropping items the initial drag freezes the UI for
a fairly jarring amount of time. Does not seem to be fixable due to
the synchronous code that needs to be run in the dragstart handler.
Used to be possible to run that code async with the XUL tree.
- Item tree column picker no longer has a dedicated button. Just
right-click the columns. The column preferences (width, order, etc) are
no longer handled by XUL, which required a custom serialization and
storage solution that throws warnings in the developer console due to
the amount of data being stored. Might cause temporary freezing on HDDs
upon column resize/reorder/visibility toggling.
- Context menu handling code basically unchanged, but any UI changes
that plugins may have wanted to do (including adding new columns) will
have to be redone by them. No serious thought has gone into how plugin
developers would achieve that yet.
- Opens up the possibility for awesome alternative ways to render the
tree items, including things like multiple-row view for the item tree,
which has been requested for a long while especially by users switching
from other referencing software
- Revert `notesList` to standalone notes mode only
- Fix splitter styling on Windows
- Fix `contextPane` performance fixes
- Add a customizable throttle function to `Zotero.Utilities`
- Fix reader tab selection issues
- Improve error handling in the new editor
- Update pdf-reader and zotero-note-editor submodules
- Fix contextPane child notes list
- Properly notify editor about new images
- Fix note title and body snippet extraction
- Persist right-hand pane state when switching tab
- Hopefully fix two panes visible at the same time
- Rollback all redundant changes made in the last few months
- Introduce `contextPane`
- Show child notes in the notes pane
- Fix splitter styling
- Various bug fixes
- Fix contextPane switching and states persistence
- Persist reader sidebar open/close state
- Fix bottom pane placeholder updating concurrency issues
- Fix toolbar placeholder width updating
- Display titles for split button
- Fix toolbar position when switching tabs
- Add PDF tab loading cover
- Improve notes and citations insertion
- Clean up and refactor code
- Fixes and cleanups to PDF reader
- Show item title at top of item pane in contextual mode not in a
library tab
- Show "All Notes" at top of standalone notes pane
- Add background color when clicking notes in standalone notes list
- Clean up back buttons
Mode button is still a placeholder but uses emoji to show the mode
The Quick Format dialog's shape is based on the OS window corners, and
that changed on Big Sur, which resulted in whitespace along the bottom
edge and a misaligned search results box.
The tops of the citation bubbles were also cut off (at least for me) on
Catalina.
Improvements:
- Fixes autocomplete text remaining in field after selection in Fx60
- No more text or icon shifting on select (tested on macOS)
Changes:
- Tags are now selected on mousedown with no active state, as in web
library
Regressions:
- Tooltip with tag type doesn't appear when hovering over icon
- Pressing Tab after modifying a tag loses focus
- Right-click in textbox shows custom menu instead of default text
editing context menu (Cut/Copy/Paste)
To-do:
- Switch to this version for note tags box
- Style colored tags in autocomplete drop-down? Sort to top?
- Only show delete button on row hover, as in web library?
The XBL prefwindow bindings are removed in Firefox 60, so this adds them
back, along with necessary styling, to allow the existing preferences to
work until the preferences are rewritten with React. The preferences.xml
file in the Mozilla source has platform ifdefs, but since this is a
temporary hack I've just duplicated the file for each platform with the
necessary lines included.
I haven't yet tested the styling on Windows/Linux.
In particular, remove code related to opening/closing the Zotero pane,
which affects tests. The pane is now opened by default in Firefox, which
brings its behavior closer to the main version.
The menu includes all user interface options from the General
preferences (now removed from the preferences), toggles for the
collections pane, item pane, and tag selector, and, at long last, a
toggle for recursive collections ("Display Items from Subcollections").
The collections pane and item pane no longer reopen automatically when
restarting Zotero. People might still close them by mistake and not find
this menu, but we'll see how it goes.
Closes#1372
The progress percentage is based on the most recent transaction
(or undeterminate if this is the first session transaction)
Fix undefined function call error
On some laptops, scaling settings might cause the DPI to drop between
96 (1x) and 144 (1.5x), and downscaled icons are probably better than
upscaled ones.
- Get rid of the hideous blue effect in the menubar and toolbar
- Slim down splitters
- Get rid of awful grippies except when collapsed (and make them
slightly less ugly in the collapsed state)
- Reduce spacing of tags in tag selector
- Tweak twisty spacing
- Get rid of stray line to the right of item pane tabs
We may still want to get rid of the menubar (#366), and we can do better
than the ugly gray backgrounds (#365), but this is a start.
I'm not sure if everything will look the same on all Windows versions,
so this will need a little testing.
Closes#367
- New 2x toolbar button shapes and other icons from @johanneskrtek --
this HiDPI-ifies basically all graphics other than a few remaining item
type icons
- Use the Mac search dropmarker for all menu buttons, since it's wider
and more pleasant. Reduce menu button padding slightly to compensate.
- Better toolbar button state for inactive window and pressed state
- Fix dropmarker overlap in tag selector icon
Closes#347, Better/retina-style OS X toolbar icons
Closes#1339, Create new button PNGs for macOS
(Borrowing a technique from Thunderbird.)
This only affects the splitters in standard view. The splitter between the top
and bottom panes in stacked view still has a 1px draggable area.
We can probably do a similar thing to slim down splitters on Windows, as
planned in #367.
