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wal doesn't regenerate colors if input file already has a cached scheme with the same name
If I run wal with wal -i path/to/symlink
the colors aren't regenerated, if a cached color scheme for that symlink already exists in ~/.cache/wal/schemes
, even if the symlink changes destinations. I haven't tried it out, but I think the same thing probably also holds true, if a normal image would be switched out but would keep it's name. So the issue isn't necessarily symbolic links, but rather that wal doesn't detect, if the underlying image has changed.
I think there are two possible solutions for that problem:
- add an argument to wal, which forces wal to ignore the cache and always regenerate the color scheme
- add a checksum of the image file to the cached json scheme, which if different also forces the regeneration of the color scheme
I think this idea is great and was really helpful while testing different schemes on my project, so I owe you a thanks ^-^