Develop Themes Attributes for the entire card

[psjnr84]

Hi Phil,

Given the card supports card mod and being able styled via this medium, would it be possible to extend the card and generate a list of supported elements that would allow the card to be fully styled via additions to a theming file?

I know you support basic functions in the themes, but being able to fully style the card via themes would reduce the dependency on card_mod (while also improving performance with changes to the card being handled at load rather than after with card_mod).

I'm talking about elements such as text sizes / line heights / text color / icon sizing etc..

For example, like the developer of mushroom cards does with his card elements.

Any improvement here would be extremely welcomed, especially when you have a large list of changes needing done to support cards / sections deployed on wall mounted tablets or Sonoff NSPanel Pro's (with limited hardware resources).

Cheers!

[punxaphil]

Thanks for this suggestion. You have any numbers/research to back the performance claims?

[psjnr84]

Hi Phil,

No I don't have metrics to prove it, but have recently migrated a dashboard that I had built using card mod to a natively supported themes driven dashboard using Mushroom Cards and the overall performance of the dashboard has increased significantly as a result, with pages / states and cards loading much quicker. I'm also encountering far less rendering errors (within Chrome's Inspector) across the dashboard as a result of this recent change.

Employing the use of themes has also made changing font / line heights / icon sizes / colors etc far easier to undertake as changing in one file then ripples throughout the dashboard in seconds rather than potentially taking 5-10mins to address via card_mod, especially if your sonos card is used in multiple places on a person's dashboard.

I fully appreciated that developing themes integration isn't an easy task, but I reckon it would have a tangible difference to users of your cards who do like using themes in their dashboards.

Regards,
Peter