Waybar VS plata-theme

If I understand https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Configuration correctly, what is to be displayed is defined in a JSON file that can be located in one of the directories mentioned.

GNU calls their extensions "equivalent to" things I'd have suggested trying ($_I or $-l), but I'm not sure if the equivalents are themselves GNU extensions, too. Regardless, reading this Waybar Github issue about %OI, I get the impression there was a regression at some point, in any case on March 27th 2022 someone says it "used to work fine until recently".

hope it helps. source btw: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/issues/2177

{ config, pkgs, ... }: { wayland.windowManager.sway = let patchedWaybar = pkgs.waybar.overrideAttrs(prev: final: { patches = [ (pkgs.fetchpatch { url = "https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/pull/2134.diff"; sha256 = "1hzdv3b8zzps50pdcb8pj9cxwaix4q2d4gsqb9dl9vflgl429hq3"; }) ]; }); in { enable = true; config.bars = [{ statusCommand = "${patchedWaybar}/bin/waybar"; }]; };

See this issue. CSS and only new properties in config are reloaded when SIGUSR2 is triggered.

I think this has just been added to waybar (wlr/workspaces) to work in a similar manner to how it is in sway/workspaces. No need for fake empty terminals. Something was merged for wwlr/workspaces in the waybar github. See - https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/pull/2089.

Ah, well in looking at their git, it appears some do have fallback font issues. See here - https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/issues/215

You can find plata here, i dont no if plata-noir or compact are part of that package. btw, it looks like plata hasn’t been updated for two years, maybe consider another more recent theme.

I think we might have a misunderstanding on our hands here. The problem is not that the Plata package for Solus is no longer maintained, but that the Plata project itself (which is/was independent from Solus) sees no more development. So stepping up would mean to take care and update the Plata theme itself, with all that entails. There have been at least two efforts to revive it, but I think both are on hold at the moment. To help out, or start your own continuation of Plata, you'd need to fork the upstream Plata project and update the GTK theme to be compatible with new versions of GNOME shell, Budgies, etc.

Theme is Plata-Noir and Papirus Icon theme, which are default for Solus Budgie.

I'd recommend plata. It has a material style design with very good contrast on both light and dark themes. It also has a compact variant. It is the default theme of solus.

I use plata-theme for GTK, it can be configured by 4 key colors, then it derives everything else from those key colors, I use the same colors for Sway, Wofi, Mako, Waybar .. etc. The result of the overall system looks very consistent.