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diff --git a/templates/waybar/README.md b/templates/waybar/README.md index 19c220c..a69f228 100644 --- a/templates/waybar/README.md +++ b/templates/waybar/README.md @@ -4,10 +4,21 @@ The bar is [waybar-theme-udt](../../../waybar-theme-udt), which lives in its own repository and its own config directory, `~/.config/waybar-udt/`. This project supplies only its colours. -`theme.css` is generated here and copied there by `install.sh`, under a fixed -name that the bar's stylesheet imports, so switching scheme rewrites the file -the running bar already reads. There is no import to repoint and no per-scheme -filename. +`theme.css` is generated here, but `install.sh` does not copy it there itself: +it calls the bar's own `install.sh`, with `UDT_PALETTE_DONE=1` so that script +skips regenerating the palette it has just been handed. + +That is because the palette reaches the bar as **three** generated files, not +one: `styles/theme.css`, `dots.colors` for the two dot scripts, which are bash +and cannot read `@define-color`, and two tints of the Slackware mark, which +has to contrast with the accent pill at rest and the dark pill on hover. +Copying only the stylesheet recoloured every pill and left the dots and the +mark on the previous scheme's colours. Generating them here instead would mean +two writers for the same files, drifting apart the moment either is edited. + +The call is never fatal: a failure in the bar's install warns and leaves the +bar on its old colours rather than stopping kitty, Kvantum and Sublime from +being themed. Same reasoning as `udt-appthemes`. ## What the bar asks for |