Themes compatible with i3-style format

acrisci commented 10 years ago

Hi, wondering if you would be interested in making some tweaks to your theme format to make them compatible with i3-style format like we talked about.

I think it would take representing your themes as an object kind of like this:

templates:
  settings:
    interpolate: /#\s\$(.+?)\n/g
  i3-theme-window: |
    client.focused          \#005577 \#005577 \#eeeeee \#0099bb
    client.focused_inactive \#444444 \#444444 \#eeeeee \#666666
    client.unfocused        \#222222 \#222222 \#bbbbbb \#222222
    client.urgent           \#700000 \#700000 \#eeeeee \#700000
  i3-theme-bar: |
    colors {
        background \#222222
        statusline \#eeeeee
        separator  \#444444

        focused_workspace  \#005577 \#005577 \#eeeeee
        active_workspace   \#444444 \#444444 \#eeeeee
        inactive_workspace \#222222 \#222222 \#bbbbbb
        urgent_workspace   \#770000 \#770000 \#eeeeee
    }

Or something (the regex is tricky) and then I could write that into the spec and it could be implemented so you wouldn't have to change any of the base files.

Just a thought. I wouldn't mind helping to implement it. I know it's a big change to your design, so feel free to reject this with no hard feelings.

wei2912 commented 10 years ago

It might not really meet the goal of j4-make-config, since it seems to me that @okraits wants pure i3 config syntax (is that right?).

okraits commented 10 years ago

I don't want to decide about it now. As i3-style has less features than j4-make-config (and j4-make-config provides all features of i3-style) right now, i don't see any need to support another theme format besides the native i3 config syntax.

Additionally, by using the native i3 config syntax, even people not using j4-make-config can paste a theme into their config without the need to convert it to native i3 config syntax before like they would have to do with a theme in the i3-style format.

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