treewide: replace custom color scheme generator with Tinty by make-42 · Pull Request #2289 · nix-community/stylix

make-42 · 2026-04-23T21:41:11Z

@philocalyst and I are willing to write the code needed for the switch to a different way of managing palettes.

As a first step, in @trueNAHO 's plan outlined (here), a move away from the Haskell based palette generator is in order.

NAHO recommended flavours but it seems like it's not very maintained + formatting the palette from the command's output requires nasty bash scripting. Hence, @philocalyst recommended tinty and it does do the job!

As such I've replaced the Haskell palette gen with tinty here as the first step.

Waiting for your input on this,
@philocalyst and I will be drafting a data representation and way of handling user's wishes to provide palettes in different schemes, use different generators for different schemes and how to map between schemes if need be so that each theme can be written for a single scheme or multiple if need be.

PS: the polarity "either" option has been removed as it no longer corresponds to a functional mode of the palette generator.

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make-42 · 2026-04-23T21:56:39Z

themes look good,

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mushrowan · 2026-04-30T13:25:38Z

now THIS looks nice

trueNAHO

As a first step, in @trueNAHO 's plan outlined (here), a move away from the Haskell based palette generator is in order.

This PR is exactly what I had in mind for step (1) and the implementation is nearly ready thanks to all the previous countless overhauls in #892.

NAHO recommended flavours but it seems like it's not very maintained + formatting the palette from the command's output requires nasty bash scripting. Hence, @philocalyst recommended tinty and it does do the job!

As such I've replaced the Haskell palette gen with tinty here as the first step.

Considering the simplicity of replacing the palette generator now, I have no strong feelings what tool exactly is being used for now, especially considering that step (2) of the plan would allow end-users to override it.

Unlike in the previously failed Material You to base16 mapping, I have not verified whether Tinty's color extraction is good enough and merely assume it is good. Has anyone tested this PR in a real setup with drastically different background images?

@philocalyst and I will be drafting a data representation and way of handling user's wishes to provide palettes in different schemes, use different generators for different schemes and how to map between schemes if need be so that each theme can be written for a single scheme or multiple if need be.

Does this refer to steps (2) and (3) from the plan?

@make-42, do you want to add @philocalyst as Co-authored-by or Reviewed-by? Before merging this PR, I will dig through the previous #892 discussions to collect all appropriate contribution tags.

trueNAHO · 2026-06-04T18:00:51Z

      devShells = {
        default = pkgs.mkShell {


Similar to in commit 89d5e0b, this single-entry attribute set should be collapsed:

devShells.default = pkgs.mkShell {

trueNAHO · 2026-06-04T18:04:11Z

This is missing:

diff --git a/flake/packages.nix b/flake/packages.nix index 4e11148c0..ba768f368 100644 --- a/flake/packages.nix +++ b/flake/packages.nix @@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ serve-docs = pkgs.callPackage ../doc/server.nix { inherit (config.packages) doc; }; - palette-generator = pkgs.callPackage ../palette-generator { }; }; }; }

trueNAHO · 2026-06-04T18:05:12Z

+              nativeBuildInputs = [
+                pkgs.tinty
+                pkgs.yq-go
+              ];


Nitpick:

Suggested change

nativeBuildInputs = [

pkgs.tinty

pkgs.yq-go

];

nativeBuildInputs = with pkgs; [

tinty

yq-go

];

trueNAHO · 2026-06-04T18:06:12Z

+              env = {
+                IMAGE = cfg.image;
+                POLARITY = cfg.polarity;
+                HOME = "/build"; # prevent tinty from trying to write to XDG_HOME/tinted-theming/tinty/config.toml where it doesn't have perms


Thanks for suggesting the comment but usually such runtime environment declarations obviously have to do something with permissions or cache:

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HOME = "/build"; # prevent tinty from trying to write to XDG_HOME/tinted-theming/tinty/config.toml where it doesn't have perms

HOME = "/build";

trueNAHO · 2026-06-04T18:08:33Z

+              tinty generate-scheme --system base16 --variant "$POLARITY" "$IMAGE" \
+                | yq -o=json \
+                > $out


Suggested change

tinty generate-scheme --system base16 --variant "$POLARITY" "$IMAGE" \

| yq -o=json \

> $out

tinty \

generate-scheme \

--system base16 \

--variant "$POLARITY" \

"$IMAGE" |

yq --output json \

>"$out"

trueNAHO · 2026-06-04T18:11:10Z

+            {
+              nativeBuildInputs = [
+                pkgs.tinty
+                pkgs.yq-go


Is there any particular reason to use pkgs.yq-go instead of pkgs.yq?

I can't answer for them, but I would pick the same. Yq-go seems to be more actively maintained and used (200/2000 commits, similar jump for stars.)

trueNAHO · 2026-06-04T18:14:09Z

      ];
-      default = "either";
+      default = "dark";
      description = ''


Simplify formatting:

diff --git a/stylix/palette.nix b/stylix/palette.nix index 044e8f6e..215739a0 100644 --- a/stylix/palette.nix +++ b/stylix/palette.nix @@ -17,9 +17,7 @@ in "dark" ]; default = "dark"; - description = '' - Whether to apply the dark or light theme. - ''; + description = "Whether to apply the dark or light theme."; }; image = lib.mkOption {

trueNAHO · 2026-06-04T18:18:42Z

  options.stylix = {
    polarity = lib.mkOption {
      type = lib.types.enum [
-        "either"


This also requires removing the current "either" normalizations. Find instances by grepping for "either", "dark", and "light".

Related: #2347

trueNAHO · 2026-06-04T18:19:19Z

+the wallpaper using [Tinty](https://github.com/tinted-theming/tinty). Note that more
+colorful images tend to yield better results.


Nitpick:

Suggested change

the wallpaper using [Tinty](https://github.com/tinted-theming/tinty). Note that more

colorful images tend to yield better results.

the wallpaper using [Tinty](https://github.com/tinted-theming/tinty). Note

that more colorful images tend to yield better results.

trueNAHO · 2026-06-04T21:12:10Z

          inputsFrom = [ config.treefmt.build.devShell ];
        };
-
-        ghc = pkgs.mkShell {


This also requires removing the Haskell linter:

diff --git a/flake/dev/pre-commit.nix b/flake/dev/pre-commit.nix index 854bc80f..9d804456 100644 --- a/flake/dev/pre-commit.nix +++ b/flake/dev/pre-commit.nix @@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ settings.noLambdaPatternNames = true; }; editorconfig-checker.enable = true; - hlint.enable = true; statix.enable = true; treefmt = { enable = true;

muni-corn · 2026-06-23T11:31:38Z

this is definitely a step forward, though i'm having some readability issues:

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Step 2: Introduce palette pipeline, generators, and multi-scheme support (base16/base24/semantic) #2290

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Tracking: resolve stylix.polarity = "either" to a concrete polarity #2301

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trueNAHO changed the title ~~tinty: move from the haskell generator to tinty as a first step~~ treewide: replace custom color scheme generator with Tinty Jun 4, 2026

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	HOME = "/build"; # prevent tinty from trying to write to XDG_HOME/tinted-theming/tinty/config.toml where it doesn't have perms
	HOME = "/build";

-              tinty generate-scheme --system base16 --variant "$POLARITY" "$IMAGE" \
-                | yq -o=json \
-                > $out
+              tinty \
+                generate-scheme \
+                --system base16 \
+                --variant "$POLARITY" \
+                "$IMAGE" |
+                yq --output json \
+                >"$out"

		the wallpaper using [Tinty](https://github.com/tinted-theming/tinty). Note that more
		colorful images tend to yield better results.

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