🌌 Night for Zotero

Install by downloading the latest version

Night theme for Zotero UI & Pdf

Also adds some animations and other UI changes.

Based on the Nord colorscheme and prior work by Rosmaninho.

✨ Features

◼️ Dark UI

Easier on the eyes for those late night deadlines.

🌚 Dark-mode for PDF

It's 2022, we can change the colors of PDFs. Choice between two themes: a very dark one, and one that matches the background color.

🔁 Quick Toggle

Quickly toggle between different filters for the pdf

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/21983833/164006109-5615d800-fbab-4174-b04e-1ad721238a61.mov

🌊 Miscellaneous UI improvements

Clean up the tab bar, add some animations here and there, get rid of all the borders.

⬇️ Install

Download the xpi from Releases. As always, if you're on Firefox, right-click -> Save link as....

Video instructions

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/21983833/168032714-6106b138-2725-4091-830b-770dbdff43a4.mov

😢 Limitations

• Popup menus do not have proper styling on some platforms.
• currently using CSS filter functions in order to make the pdfs dark, however this is rather slow.

✅ To-do

• [ ] Make prettier, more curves. Basically redesign zotero a bit
• [ ] Add more themes
• [x] Add user preferences
• [ ] Write contributing guide

💪 Contributing

You're help is very welcome! However, getting setup for Zotero plugin development is a bit of a pain in the ass.

What you need to do

• [ ] Download Zotero 60 ESR
• [ ] Git clone
• [ ] yarn
• [ ] do the zotero plugin stuff (expound on this)
• [ ] Launch zotero with --debugger and -somethingcaches
• [ ] Launch Firefox 60
• [ ] In Firefox, go to devtools, go to settings, click "enable remote debugging" and the one next to it that's also about debugging.
• [ ] In Zotero, go to setting, advanced, config editor, look up "debugging" and click on "allow remote debugging"
• [ ] In Firefox, click the hamburger menu in the top right -> web developer -> Connect...
• [ ] Enter localhost:6100
• [ ] Connect
• [ ] Click "Inspect Main Process"

Wow now you can finally do things.