lsd-rs / lsd-rs/lsd

ability to check default theme file and load it if existed

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How about for icons theme, we explicitly call it overrides and keep the theme one with existing functionality. I am not sure if that is the best approach though.

For folks without patched fonts, unicode is an option to get some icons without much hurdle.


One other option that I strongly prefer is something different. We don't let users specify a file, instead if a file called colors.yaml is preset in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/lsd, we load colors from there and if a file called icons.yaml is present, we load icons from there. It feels much simpler. We can support specifying themes in both ways for color for some time with a deprecation message on the old way while people switch. The current way of specifying a file path seems a bit clunky overall.

Originally posted by @meain in https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd/issues/707#issuecomment-1198461950

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No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by tracing the existing theme-file loading and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/lsd configuration handling, then clarify the proposed colors.yaml and icons.yaml behavior and the deprecation path for color file arguments. Done means the agreed loading behavior and compatibility rules are implemented and tested.

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rust
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cli
Issue type
Feature
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Estimated time
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