Easiest Way to Modify/Add/Remove Themes?

[ilohmar]

I wanted to play around with the built-in themes, so I cloned the flow-themes repo, with the intention of building my own custom themes.zig to be used in flow then. But zig build in flow-themes failed --- it seems to not find the first theme file default.json.

Now that may be an issue to file in the flow-themes repo, but I did not want to create an XY problem, hence asking here: Am I going about this the right/wrong way? If zig build in flow-themes should just work, I will gladly file an issue there.

Thanks!

[neurocyte]

Yes, zig build in flow-themes should just work. This will produce a zig module in zig-out that can then be referenced in flow. You can use your local build of flow-themes by changing the .url line in flow's build.zig.zon to .path = "{flow-themes-path}/zig-out" and remove the .hash line.

If you can't get flow-themes to build you are probably not using the correct version of zig. Check the version stored in build.zig.version and make sure it matches your zig version. Or use the ./zig wrapper script to automatically fetch the correct version and build.

If it still doesn't build please open an issue in the flow-themes repo.

[neurocyte]

For future reference I'll mention the solution to flow-themes#1 here. To build flow-themes you need to have hjson installed in your path. It is used to sanitize theme files that are not strict json.