splide-minimal.html.twig used for non-vanilla display

I have been thinking that SDC integration in a future version would make things easier to theme.

Currently we have to use template suggestions and library overrides.

The skins implementation requires a custom module and can't be done by theming alone.

One of the things I learned is that it's helpful to have your custom slide styles in a module instead of a theme, so they work inside the views UI. Otherwise it is currently not possible to create a view of entity references using rendered entity with your theme's css and templates unless you're using your theme for admin.

This ticket was created out of confusion, I wasn't sure why things were working the way they did or how to approach creating the sliders I needed. I think I was expecting to get the media template instead of splide__slide with the vanilla option, I'm not sure anymore.

I was able to configure what I needed for 2 sliders, but had to build one from scratch using a custom views formatter with a SDC to load splide. I did end up using blazy for loading remote videos, and I like how that configuration is exposed in the splide formatters.

I'm thinking that this paradigm of using SDC improves the DX vs learning the specific things handled by all the classes and options in the module. It might make sense to add a starting component that we could copy and modify. There could be several components as examples for different configuration. This could live alongside the current plugin type and provide some conveniences for developers doing something custom.

The doc comments below @file line actually mentioned the dual usages for both vanilla and navigation.
However I agreed to update @file comment as suggested.

Regarding template overrides, you can do regular copy procedures into your theme.
Just be sure to keep the relevant conditions as recommended in the doc comment top distinguish Vanilla from navigation.

In case misunderstood, unlike Slick, Splide supports navigation within Vanilla as documented in project home as long as Thumbnail style or Thumbnail caption is provided. I understand this might confuse you. However the current approach is a more simplified version of Slick's while having more advanced features.

More betterment is always welcome should you have one.

Thank you for contribution.

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