Aquarelle

Can be the following:

• An experimental environment for color schemes.
• A (pre)processor of themes in any format (if possible).
• A way to customize the appearance of software declaratively.
• My personal rice (the aquarelle namespace).

The current state is basically:

• Almost undocumented.
• The CLI is functional, the GUI is not.
• The API seems stable.
• Review is needed (memory layout, error handling, etc.).

Development and testing

The following commands are assumed to be executed with bash in the project directory:

• First configure the project directory: meson setup build --prefix ~/install_dir

  Change ~/install_dir to the directory of your choice, and now you can use cargo properly.

• Run the CLI version as follows: cargo run --features cli

  To use arguments, append: -- <arg1> <arg2> <...>

• Before running the GUI version, the settings schema must be compiled:

  mkdir -p ~/.local/share/glib-2.0/schemas/
  ln -s $(pwd)/build/data/io.github.ejaa3.Aquarelle.Devel.gschema.xml \
          ~/.local/share/glib-2.0/schemas/ && \
      glib-compile-schemas ~/.local/share/glib-2.0/schemas/

  Now you can run the GUI version: cargo run --features gui --bin gui

• Installation: meson install -C build

• Book: mdbook serve --open