Waybar: only inject colors

[3elDU]

The CSS that is shipped with stylix for waybar is not quite what I want, as I already have written my own styles for it. I only want for the colors to be prepended to the CSS, so that I would be able to use them.
It would be great if there would be an ability to only inject color definitions, as it is already being done:

stylix/modules/waybar/hm.nix

Lines 36 to 41 in 73c6955

	programs.waybar.style = ''
	@define-color base00 ${base00}; @define-color base01 ${base01}; @define-color base02 ${base02}; @define-color base03 ${base03};
	@define-color base04 ${base04}; @define-color base05 ${base05}; @define-color base06 ${base06}; @define-color base07 ${base07};
	@define-color base08 ${base08}; @define-color base09 ${base09}; @define-color base0A ${base0A}; @define-color base0B ${base0B};
	@define-color base0C ${base0C}; @define-color base0D ${base0D}; @define-color base0E ${base0E}; @define-color base0F ${base0F};

I'm not sure of what's the best practice to implement such behavior, as I, as the user set the waybar.style property, but stylix also has to write into there somehow. Perhaps a whole different paradigm is required for this, but I'm not the author of stylix to decide.

[trueNAHO]

Perhaps a whole different paradigm is required for this, but I'm not the author of stylix to decide.

This is a somewhat already acknowledged problem:

the use of extraConfig might cause other potentially related issues. As discussed in #159 (comment), it makes it harder to override options, and as discussed in #388 (comment), it makes it easier to accidentally override Stylix options.

-- #395

[danth]

It seems we're trying to cater to two different groups of users:

1. Those who expect the CSS to be fully functional without further coding
2. Those who want to customise the CSS

The best idea that comes to mind is adding a way to partially disable an individual target, so you still get the colors as variables but not applied to anything.

[3elDU]

The best idea that comes to mind is adding a way to partially disable an individual target, so you still get the colors as variables but not applied to anything.

That is pretty much the behavior that I would expect, yeah, doing something like

stylix.targets.waybar.addCSS = false;

[trueNAHO]

The best idea that comes to mind is adding a way to partially disable an individual target, so you still get the colors as variables but not applied to anything.

That is pretty much the behavior that I would expect, yeah, doing something like

stylix.targets.waybar.addCSS = false;

Is this not essentially disabling targets with stylix.targets.<TARGET>.enable = false;?

[danth]

Is this not essentially disabling targets with stylix.targets.<TARGET>.enable = false;?

It would keep the variable definitions part of the CSS, but not the opinionated part which applies those variables to certain areas of the UI.

[tbaumann]

I suppose you can just disable stylix for waybar and include the @define-color ... lines just the same as the home-manager module would do.

[3elDU]

I suppose you can just disable stylix for waybar and include the @define-color ... lines just the same as the home-manager module would do.

That's precisely what I did, for now.
https://github.com/3elDU/nixos-config/blob/9894821719037a37be30cfbed296568963075183/home/wm/waybar.nix#L42-L47