App styling

[lshrinivas]

@gulbanana are you open to contributions that change the visual styling of the app? I made a fork of this project to just play around with different styles - I added theming support to it, so users can configure different themes according to their preferences. I'm attaching a few screenshots of what I've done. If you feel this might be a useful addition, I can create a pull request. The current code is available here FWIW: https://github.com/starburstdata/gg/tree/themes

Example MacOS theme:

Example Material theme:

[joyously]

I find it difficult to see the differences. If it's just color, I suggest to follow the system's colors, which will be optimized to user's preference already.

[lshrinivas]

Color palettes is part of it, but also moved some of the action buttons into a toolbar on top - the fetch/push, edit, new child, squash, restore and undo buttons are in the toolbar.
When you mention following system colors, is there a way for users to configure the colors? The default app looks like this on a Mac:

I created the style updates as I found the default colors a little hard to use with my work repo (which is in Java) - the changes panel looks like this (it's hard to see what file is selected, and which one I'm trying to click on):

[joyously]

Just as a glance, I think the buttons being close to the object being affected is much better than being in the toolbar.
As for colors, yes, I think gray is a bad choice due to it being in the middle of black and white, so contrast is harder to get.
Is that file selection problem due to a bug with displaying the path? It looks like the path is longer than the string can hold, or is it simply repeating the first part several times?

[lshrinivas]

I changed the approach to use theme files instead of pre-defined styles (to allow full customizability). Re: the file path in the changes section - the full path was too long to fit in the space. I added ellipsis so it doesn't overflow onto 2 lines at least.

FWIW the code is at https://github.com/starburstdata/gg/tree/themes if you feel inclined to check it out/play around. The usual cargo tauri dev will start up the application.