Darkmode/Lightmode functionality

[aspauldingcode]

Darkmode/Lightmode functionality

Problem: Detecting system-wide theme as dark/light is not going so well on NixOS. In addtion, my themes are defined through nix-colors, so switching the color-scheme is essential to work universally across all my applications, including:

• brave-browser
• alacritty
• nvim
• waybar
• sketchybar
• qt
• gtk
• .car (macOS inject .car colorscheme files using SIMBL and SIMBL Loader such as MacForge)!

Tasks:

• [ ] waybar darkmode button toggle
• [ ] sketchybar darkmode button toggle
• [ ] hotreload sketchybar on theme switch instead of pkill and restart it. (Install darkmode scheme switcher plugin)
• [ ] does waybar hotreload colors? hotreload waybar on color-scheme switch instead of pkill and restart it.
• [ ] alacritty hot-reload on colorscheme switch
• [ ] Brave Browser hot-reload colorscheme switch
• [ ] Dark colorscheme!
• [ ] Light colorscheme!
• [ ] Detect system dark/light, and switch nix-color scheme to dark/light variant.
• [ ] Waybar Toggle switches systemwide dark/light variants.
• [ ] Brave Browser chrome theme config switch? use jquery?
• [ ] Brave Browser DarkReader theme config switch? use jquery?
• [x] Neovim/NixVim color theme scheme switch based off nix-colors.

[aspauldingcode]

What a hot mess.

[aspauldingcode]

macOS (NIXY) is successfully changing configuration of macOS system darkmode to light if the theme variant is lightmode from nix-colors.

Using nix specialization, I could create a toggle-theme to switch between a specified darkmode and lightmode colorscheme with nix colors (eg. gruvbox-soft-dark and gruvbox-soft-light).

To get this working on NixOS might be trivial from here.