Creating themes for Zotero editing userChrome.css

Pedro Rosmaninho · September 24, 2018

Since Zotero is based in Mozilla Firefox, it is possible to create and edit a chrome profile to edit its appearance. However, it's very hard to style it because there's no class names among other things.

Is there a resource somewhere where we can access this to change Zotero's appearance? It's very outdated and it would be nice to open it up to new designs. Heck, maybe even adopt the Quantum design language from firefox.

dstillman · September 25, 2018

Zotero won't be based on Firefox for long, so this isn't something worth investing time in under the current architecture or the current design.

But for what it's worth, if you build Zotero yourself you can use the Firefox dev tools, as explained there, to inspect the Zotero DOM.

Pedro Rosmaninho · September 25, 2018

Well, that sucks. Hopefully, Zotero will then have a theme that fits better in W10 and maybe a dark theme.

AveryA · October 30, 2018

@dstillman
So what do you mean when you say that Zotero won't be based on Firefox for long? What's in the works?

adamsmith · October 30, 2018

Zotero is moving to Electron in the not-too-distant future: https://electronjs.org/