settings window

[mrjohnyhats]

I made a small settings window for dext. It's currently in the early stages, but it should give users an easier way to install plugins/themes.

[vutran]

@mrjohnyhats This is amazing work. I'd like to help clean this baby up a little. Let me know where I can help.

[mrjohnyhats]

First of all, thank you! It was a fun learning experience. Second of all, submit any changes you'd like, it would be great if the window was consistent with the rest of the project design and structure-wise, so that'd be a huge help.

[adnasa]

@mrjohnyhats I love this initiative! FYI, At the moment, I'm trying to conduct a simple "road map" as to how dext would look like in the future.

One of the main features I want to see in Dext, is of course, the settings window!

Unfortunately, from my stand point, I see that the road to having the settings window in dext is a long one, since I think that we have to tackle the follow barriers in the following order

1. we need a proper house cleaning of dext's code base and improve the transaction between electron -> main window itself.
2. I see a huge need to consolidate all core packages of dext into one repo, together with dext itself
3. design a new API for plugins to offer richer behaviour beyond the configuration boilerplate that dext has today.

After we have done the above, I think then we are ready to tuck in a settings window in a fashionable manner than what is possible now (again, from my stand point).

I hope you like my living draft of the überminified road map, and I hope I see you around when we get started. I already tagged this issue into the Dext 2.0 project