[Request] Plasma color scheme template to match the konsole template as well as a kvantum theme

[areyoufeelingitnowmrkrebs]

I've personally been trying my hand at doing this but haven't made any super reasonable progress. I even posted to the KDE Discuss forum saying pywal would be a cool feature to implement into the DE itself but there didn't seem to be much consensus on how desirable that would be for the community. Personally I think it would be super useful.

[areyoufeelingitnowmrkrebs]

A GTK theme would also be possible using all SVG assets, though that's way above my pay grade. However, I have already begun work on a Plasma color scheme and a Kvantum theme, but they could likely be greatly improved by someone with more UI design experience. I am happy to share what I have done so far if this sounds like an undertaking anyone would be interested in.

[eylles]

i am familiar with this: https://discuss.kde.org/t/global-pywal16-integration/27123 thread if that's the one you reference

i have been slowly grinding at a solution to have qt and gtk more or less agree on themeing, https://github.com/eylles/pywal16-libadwaita
i still have a lot of work to do but it consists on making gtk2, gtk3, gtk4/libadwaita and qt (through kvantum) look and feel as cohesive as possible, the plan rn is that the finished python script will be a thin cli to a library that can build gradience style json themes from pywal themes (maybe also from base16 but that would be later down the line), then use the gradience style json themes to export the colors into css for gtk 3 and gtk4, recolorize the kvlibadwaita kvantum theme and if required to also build gtk2 gtkrc files so that programs still using gtk2 can get colors and styling that more or less fit.

i got no idea how to make plasma colorschemes tho, i'm also working on colorizing icons and cursors but that is from other repos.

[areyoufeelingitnowmrkrebs]

I see. Pardon my ignorance, but I was wondering if it might be simpler to create GTK 2/3/4 themes that utilize SVG assets and use those themes as Pywal templates. Could you start with a base theme that already exists across these frameworks, replace their assets with SVGs, use Pywal variables instead of colors, and place the folder in ~/.config/wal/templates? Then, you could just symlink the generated theme(s) to ~/.themes. This is the approach I've taken with Kvantum, using the Utterly Sweet theme for Plasma. I replaced the colors with Pywal variables and placed the configs in ~/.config/wal/templates/Kvantum, then symlinked ~/.cache/wal/Kvantum to ~/.config/Kvantum/Pywal. The changes are applied immediately, and all I need to do is run wal then reopen my Qt apps. I apologize if this isn't a feasible approach or complicates development – I'm out of my depth here and just brainstorming based on my experience.

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[eylles]

if you check the repo i linked the templates dir contains the kvantum templates i use and a the template i was using for the gradience json theme.

gtk 3 and 4 themes are defined in css documents, which mean assets can be svgs, pre-rendered pngs (that can be recolored with css wizardry) or straight up drawn in css, the last option being the norm nowadays.

templates seem like a good solution at a glance but in reality they are very limited and a burden to maintain, with the template approach when you want to support a different kvantum theme you need to template that theme, adjust the colors used to fit within the 16 colors that pywal 16 can output, and even when pywal16 can modify it's 16 colors inside templates that also got limitations, a much better approach is to be able to programatically take some theme and replace the colors, which is the approach i'm taking with the python scripts.

as for the gtk 3/4 themes, i'm only supporting adw-gtk3 since it is one of the few (if not only) gtk themes that currently does A) provide something that looks good along libadwaita by cloning and porting the style. B) uses the gtk named colors and is explicitly made to have elements overriden in the ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css and ~/.config/gtk-4.0/gtk.css files, something that while it may work with other gtk themes there is no guarantee the results will be good.