Re: [Vimprobable-users] Changing the hints CSS and other config without recompile

[Daniel C. <dan...@gm...>]

Daniel Carl
Morgan Howe <mt...@gm...> wrote:
> I think we should try to move as many of these compile time settings as
> is reasonable out to configurable settings, and be vim-like not only
> in behavior, but flexibility as well. It should be possible to do so
> while still maintaining a good balance between minimalism and
> configurability, and will allow us to provide a browser that
> distributions will be able to include in their repos that is ready to
> meet the needs or tastes of most users without a recompile.

In case of user who get vimprobable as compiled binary installed it makes
sense to allow to change some more things during runtime. But I don't think
that it would be easier for such an user to type in css rules in the config
file to change the look of the hints. The hints are not just a color or a
font. I like the way of doing style changes via style.css file. Long story
short: I can't imagine that a user want to add something like following to the
config file.

    set hint-label-css=z-index:100000;font-family:monospace;font-size:10px;font-weight:bold;color:white;background-color:red;padding:0px 1px;position:absolute;

According to the initial issue, I'd suggest to rework the hinting to add and
remove only classes and avoid to set inline styles (except of the position of
the labels) and to add a stylesheet with the default styling of the hint
elements. This makes it easy to style the hints completely by style.css file.

-- 
Daniel