Theme.json specifications (or how to configure interface)

[Harlock974 0]

Hello,

I currently use Cura 4.13.1 on Linux (with an Appimage). I want to update to 5.x but I notice an annoying issue in the interface : the configuration panel is too wide (cf picture) :

 

 

I see that some tweaks could be made with a theme file. I tried to lower the font size but this doesn't change panel width. Is there somewhere a description of the theme.json file ? I couldn't find it. If there is another way to adjust panel size please let me know.

 

Regards

[Slashee_the_Cow 272]

For most of the Cura configuration files there aren't really any guides.

 

In your case you're using the dark theme which inherits from the light theme, which means anything not specified by the dark theme (like sizes) comes from the light theme.

So in the light theme, you need to change line 511:

"print_setup_widget": [38.0, 30.0],

I don't know what units those are off the top of my head. But the important part is that if you make the numbers lower, things get smaller.

[Harlock974 0]

Hi Slashee
First thank you very much for the time spent giving wise advises on the forum.

Next your solution indeed works. For the numbers I notice that I have to multiply by around 15 to have the corresponding size in pixel. May be It has something to do with screen resolution.

I have resized the panel with "print_setup_widget" but profile widget and font size should be adjusted too. Profile widget is "print_setup_big_item" (difficult to guess this one). I didn't succeeded find how to have a condensed style for the Noto default font so I changed the font family. Here is the theme.json content put in my profile directory :

 

{
    "metadata": {
        "name": "Dark small",
        "inherits": "cura-dark"
    },

    "fonts": {
        "default": {
            "size": 1.0,
            "weight": 40,
            "family": "Liberation Sans Narrow"
        },
        "default_bold": {
            "size": 1.0,
            "weight": 63,
            "family": "Liberation Sans Narrow"
        },
        "default_italic": {
            "size": 1.0,
            "weight": 40,
            "italic": true,
            "family": "Liberation Sans Narrow"
        },
        "small": {
            "size": 0.8,
            "weight": 40,
            "family": "Liberation Sans Narrow"
        },
        "medium": {
            "size": 1.0,
            "weight": 40,
            "family": "Liberation Sans Narrow"
        }
    },

  "sizes": {
        "print_setup_widget": [32.0, 30.0],
        "print_setup_big_item": [24, 2.5]
    }
}