Add previews of all themes

[aidalgol]

Could we add preview screenshots of the themes similar to how the Helix editor provides preview for its themes?

[fdncred]

Sure. Go for it. It would be cool to have a readme in that folder that has screenshots of all the themes that have been provided.

[aidalgol]

What should I include in the screenshots to show the various theme colours? Maybe just the same ls command example on the Nushell website?

[fdncred]

I think the key is to have something that shows off the theme best. I'm fine with what you've suggested for now. However, it would be nice to have a script in the repo that generates this readme. If there was a script, it should be pretty easy to change whatever the output is.

[aidalgol]

I'm going to try figuring out how asciinema does this for video to see whether that would be feasible for automating this.

[amtoine]

I'm going to try figuring out how asciinema does this for video to see whether that would be feasible for automating this.

you could also probably automate screenshot taking with a script which would, for each theme available in themes/themes/, do the following

• source the theme
• run some command to have an overview of the color palette
• take a screenshot
• save it under the right path and with the right name

and finally update the README to preview all the themes 😋

[aidalgol]

That would work, but it seems less reliable. Especially as I am on a tabbed window-manager.

[amtoine]

That would work, but it seems less reliable. Especially as I am on a tabbed window-manager.

mm 🤔
you should be able to make a screenshot of a single window, or even of a particular portion of the screen 😋

[fdncred]

Another potential idea is to create "screenshots" without images and just create a markdown page with the appropriate colors and fake image. Or maybe an html page? Not sure exactly.

[amtoine]

Another potential idea is to create "screenshots" without images and just create a markdown page with the appropriate colors and fake image. Or maybe an html page? Not sure exactly.

that could be great 😮
much lighter than raw images 👍

asciinema has the benefits or being light-weight, i.e. text-based, and nice to look at in a little video format 😌

[aidalgol]

Another potential idea is to create "screenshots" without images and just create a markdown page with the appropriate colors and fake image. Or maybe an html page? Not sure exactly.

Looks like GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM) filters out any colour styling in raw HTML, so it seems we would have to build a website to render themes using HTML and CSS.

Since mentioning wanting to look into asciinema, I have found termshot, which looks like it does exactly what I wanted.

[aidalgol]

Blocked on homeport/termshot#102