There is no proper theme switcher

amtoine commented 2 years ago

I would like to work on a proper script to change the themes of config files easily.

The idea for now is to:

make sure each color of the color palette is on its own line in the config files that need to have their color theme changed
add markers to isolate the color palette in the config file
use the extra meta data from the markers to replace the color palette

IDEA OF IMPLEMENTATION:

#+ BEGIN:color-theme
#+ format:{name} = '{color}'
#+ names:color_1,color_2,color_3
color_1 = '#74acdb'
color_2 = '#70a4ce'
color_3 = '#6c9dc1'
#+ END:color-theme

And then, once it is possible to change one file at a time, i would like to write a script that can:

read from a database of themes, e.g. kovidgoyal/kitty-themes
let the user explore the database of themes
ask the user what theme to apply...
and on which configuration files
apply the selected theme to the selected files
restart or recompile programs that need one or the other after changing a configuration file

IDEA OF IMPLEMENTATION: i previously had a2n-s-themes which was supposed to do that, but it was flawed and not clean up to my standards... i want to abtract that new script(s) from this one. also, i plan to use dmenu and rofi to have a graphical interaction and zenity to ask sudo passwords in a GUI

amtoine commented 2 years ago

Actually, after experimenting a bit, i will very likely split that into multiple PRs in the future.

amtoine commented 2 years ago

Now that i can apply basically any values to any hunk in any config file, see #16, i would like to have a script that can generate a theme from scratch for me :ok_hand:

amtoine commented 2 years ago

Now that i have a2n-s-compute-color-palette that can generate color themes in an easy way, i want to work on a central place to apply themes to all the configs at once :yum:

see my first opening comment:

read from a database of themes, e.g. kovidgoyal/kitty-themes

let the user explore the database of themes

ask the user what theme to apply...

and on which configuration files

apply the selected theme to the selected files

restart or recompile programs that need one or the other after changing a configuration file

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There is no proper theme switcher #15