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catppuccin / nix

❄️ Soothing pastel theme for Nix
https://nix.catppuccin.com/
MIT License
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Support integrating with plasma-manager for theming Plasma, Konsole, ... #215

Open pluiedev opened 5 months ago

pluiedev commented 5 months ago

Theming KDE apps, including Plasma itself, has always been a tricky matter. Since KDE always expects its configuration files to be freely writable, the typical approach to simply make the file a symlink of a generated config file in the store is not viable. However, catppuccin-nix could integrate with plasma-manager to support KDE theming, as it already has all the foundations needed to correctly handle KDE config files.

However, there is one problem with supporting plasma-manager — it has quite a hefty size, and not everyone requires using it. Since flakes as of now don't support optional dependencies, that means we could potentially end up needing a different version of the main flake that does offer plasma-manager support. Would that amount of work really be worth it to support KDE?

hyshka commented 3 weeks ago

As a Plasma and Catppuccin Nix user, I'd more than welcome a separate flake if it configured the Plasma Catppuccin theme for me. Would that reduce the complexity significantly?

pluiedev commented 2 weeks ago

As a Plasma and Catppuccin Nix user, I'd more than welcome a separate flake if it configured the Plasma Catppuccin theme for me. Would that reduce the complexity significantly?

In my experience, not really, since I already maintain something akin to it in my own repo. Although, it's important that catppuccin-nix's lib module be made public in order to avoid some dirty hacks I've been using to gain access to it — I've talked to @getchoo about it and it still hasn't happened yet, though I can see why as flakes still lack versioning or any sort of stable API guarantees