Should search for themes in XDG_DATA_DIRS on Linux

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hallettj

Describe the solution you'd like?

On Linux Warp looks for custom themes in $XDG_DATA_HOME/warp_terminal/themes which is good! It should also collect themes from corresponding subdirectories in every directory in $XDG_DATA_DIRS. This would make it easier to use package managers to install themes. (AFAICT this is not currently happening.)

From the XDG Base Directory Specification:

$XDG_DATA_DIRS defines the preference-ordered set of base directories to search for data files in addition to the $XDG_DATA_HOME base directory. The directories in $XDG_DATA_DIRS should be seperated with a colon ':'.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

It would be great to be able to distribute packages for custom themes. Package managers generally do not write to ~/.local/share/. Instead they write to locations such as /usr/share/ or ~/.nix-profile/share/. Whatever location the package manager on a given system writes shared data to, it should be given by the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable.

Additional context

Here is an abridged version of XDG_DATA_DIRS in my session:

$ echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS
/home/jesse/.nix-profile/share:/nix/profile/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share

I would like to be able to create a package that puts symlinks to theme files in /home/jesse/.nix-profile/share/warp-terminal/themes/ corresponding to the first entry in XDG_DATA_DIRS. When I tried it didn't work.

How important is this feature to you?

2

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Locate the Linux theme-discovery path that currently reads $XDG_DATA_HOME/warp_terminal/themes. Check how XDG_DATA_DIRS is parsed and how corresponding warp_terminal/themes directories are searched. Done means themes from each colon-separated XDG_DATA_DIRS entry are discovered in addition to the existing data-home location.