Documentation in theming.md seems outdated

[djschilling]

Steps to reproduce

I wrote a custom config for element web. Changing some colors worked fine. But some of the variables seem to not work anymore as described here.

• Setting avatar-background-colors does not work
• accent-color does not work and seems to be replaced by just accent
• warning-color does not work and i could not find a replacement for it.
• other variables like quinary-content are working but are not documented

Is there somewhere a complete list of variables that can be used here? Is it possible to override the letter spacing for the font?

Here is the current state of my theme:

"custom_themes": [
            {
                "name": "ChurchTools",
                "is_dark": false,
                "fonts": {
                    "faces": [
                        {
                            "font-family": "Lato",
                            "src": [
                                {
                                    "url": "/themes/element/lato-v14-latin-ext_latin-regular.woff2",
                                    "format": "woff2"
                                }
                            ]
                        }
                    ],
                    "general": "Lato, sans",
                    "monospace": "'Courier New'"
                },
                "colors": {
                    "accent": "#2563EB",
                    "quinary-content": "#E2E8F0",
                    "warning-color": "#EF4444",
                    "sidebar-color": "#EBEFF5",
                    "roomlist-background-color": "#F1F5F9",
                    "roomlist-text-color": "#0F172A",
                    "roomlist-text-secondary-color": "#475569",
                    "roomlist-highlights-color": "#E2E8F0",
                    "roomlist-separator-color": "#E2E8F0",
                    "timeline-background-color": "#ffffff",
                    "timeline-text-color": "#0F172A",
                    "timeline-text-secondary-color": "#475569",
                    "timeline-highlights-color": "#F1F5F9",
                    "username-colors": [
                        "#0EA5E9",
                        "#22C55E",
                        "#2563EB",
                        "#8B5CF6",
                        "#EAB308",
                        "#EF4444",
                        "#F97316",
                        "#D946EF"
                    ],
                    "avatar-background-colors": [
                        "#22C55E",
                        "#2563EB",
                        "#F97316"
                    ]
                }
            }
        ]
    }

[t3chguy]

Related https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues/26285

[Johennes]

The whole approach to theming will change with Compound but the concrete details of that still need to be worked out. In the meantime, we should at the minimum add a disclaimer about this known to be broken in the docs.

[zip0zip0]

Is there a status on when the new 'Theming' and its documentation will be in place?

[Johennes]

I'm not able to answer this anymore, sadly, but @langleyd might be.

[t3chguy]

The docs got fixed at some point