- 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
- 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 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.
- 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.
- Fix spacing on Windows and Linux in latest Firefox versions
- Tweak icon colors on Windows and OS X
- Adjust Z SVG to take up full height, so Z is a full 16px instead of
14px with slight anti-aliasing
- Use generated PNGs instead of SVG for Z toolbar icons, to remove the
need for complicated size rules
- Add separate platform-specific .svg files that are used by a
zotero-build script, make-z-icons, to generate the Z PNGs; the main
SVG is still used directly in the menu panel and customization
palette, with platform media queries to determine the coloring
Firefox no longer supports transparent windows because it made them do
extra preprocessing on a file to restore the drop shadow when the
Developer Edition theme was active:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1162649
And fix save button hover height on Windows, which somehow got out of
whack again.
Might need further tweaking on Linux
Need to find a better way to do these buttons...
Courtesy of Pastel SVG (2x famfamfam)
I didn't add 2x versions for any composite icons or any Fugue icons.
Also:
- Removed some unused/redundant images
- Switched to shadowless versions for a couple Fugue icons
- New dedicated Zotero button, available in the Customize palette
- Remove "16px" Z SVG and just render "32px" one at the smaller size
(there's a slight difference at the edges, but we should probably redo
it anyway so that dark lines reach all the way to the bottom)
- Change "Open Zotero" back to just "Zotero", since 1) it's for closing
too, 2) it can also just bring Standalone to the front, and 3) "Open
Zotero" looks weird and inconsistent in the menu panel next to things
like "Preferences"
- For now, show single large Z for combo buttons in customization
palette with "Zotero (Combo)", though we can probably do something
better.
- Fix some HiDPI bugs when moving items between areas
Still need a layout for the panel for the combo buttons
