Live reload?

[MyGitHubBlueberry]

I'm checking out your templates (only for gradience for now). Themes looks cool - 0 complains.

Are you planning to add a build-in functionality to live reload themes? I'm changing a sceme and them, apply it, and then i need to reopen an app (pkill nautilus, in my case) for theme to be applied.

Maybe there's a way to reload live using xsettingsd? I heard wpgtk use something like that. But, from my experience it wont work on nautilus anyway)))

[eylles]

wpgtk just tries to use the gnome settings daemon, xfce settings daemon and xsettingsd

https://github.com/deviantfero/wpgtk/blob/141fe3dc10578a74508f3952779225360ba1eda6/wpgtk/data/reload.py#L48-L126

my plan is to deprecate the templates and lean heavily into the python scripts, build-gradience.py already works and i need to retake work on build-kvantum.py doing the same type of replace done in adw-gtk2-colorizer with the latest version of kvlibadwaita

that way only build-gradience depends on pywal directly, the others are "hooked" on a bootstrapping like process and every required theme is built from the gradience preset (kvantum, steam, discord).

as for managing the different scripts and reloading i have another project on the works for that, still not ready to use anywhere ouside my machine tho...

[MyGitHubBlueberry]

Great! I will keep an eye on this project :)

I slightly modified your script for personal use:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

source "$HOME/.cache/wallust/colors.sh"

~/nixos/packages/pywal-sixteen/result/bin/wal -i $wallpaper -s --cols16




mkdir -p ~/.config/presets/user
cp ~/.cache/wal/colors-gradience.json ~/.config/presets/user/colors-gradience.json

gradience-cli apply -n pywal



mkdir -p "${HOME}"/.config/Kvantum/pywal
cp "${HOME}"/.cache/wal/pywal.kvconfig "${HOME}"/.config/Kvantum/pywal/pywal.kvconfig
cp "${HOME}"/.cache/wal/pywal.svg "${HOME}"/.config/Kvantum/pywal/pywal.svg

kvantummanager --set "pywal"

And here is a pywal16 theme applied to nautilus and kvantum :)

[eylles]

speaking of the mostrous script to glue together a lot of stuff.... https://github.com/eylles/elthemer it is terrible and not ready to use anywhere but my machine yet, tho it can be retrofitted with enough elbow grease...