The Rabbit Hole - when all I wanted was to try out a text-editor
I don't know why, but I like fiddling with text-editors and just recently I ran into the Helix editor, gave it a try and liked it. For me, it was almost zero-config-ready out of the box. For the first time even the similar vim-bindings made sense to me, which then led me to into an entirely different rabbit hole.
So, now I wanted to have similar setups everywhere as I was using vim-bindings already in Obsidian as well ...
... and that led into another deep-dive into fiddling with various terminals (Ghostty, Ptyxis, Kitty) and TUI file-managers and IRC clients and what not.
I ended up with a reasonable, yet still ever so slightly incomplete setup involving Kitty, aforementioned Helix, Ranger, Zathura, mpv and what not. I also like to work in the terminal it turns out, and I do like text-based configs (naturally managed via Stow, even though I manage to forget the ONE command I need - stow . - every, single, time).
Naturally I needed to apply the same theme[1] - if available - in all of these apps. I don't like visual surprises. All of this of course, while having a boatload of work to do at the same time, but I find this tinkering rather soothing talking about coping mechanism.
So, now after a bit fiddling I eventually had a nice and somewhat consistent setup, yet, every time I opened anything I on my laptop I was greeted with Gnome's [2] default look, in either light or dark but definitely not agreeing with my current theme.
Something had to get done. Like - REALLY!
Fiddling with themes, theme-ing in general even, is not not the most pleasant experience in Gnome and after little consideration, having used SWAY before, I installed and switched to KDE Plasma 6 and within a rather short time I had a nice setup, a consistent color theme and lot's of new things to set up and optimize and even some nice window tiling. How great is that!
I did though mention that all I wanted is to try out Helix, didn't I?
I could have simply using evil-bindings in Emacs, install the Solarized theme and be done with it. But I guess that would be too easy and only half-as fun.
- I am currently using the Solarized theme as it seems to be the only dark theme that doesn't introduce some short of ghotsing (I can't find the right term at the moment, despite all searching) and am using it here on the blog as well. Things have to be consistent, don't they? The last time I used the solarized theme on the blog, the latter was still running on Scriptogram ↩︎
- I am currently using the Solarized theme as it seems to be the only dark theme that doesn't introduce some short of ghotsing (I can't find the right term at the moment, despite all searching) and am using it here on the blog as well. Things have to be consistent, don't they? The last time I used the solarized theme on the blog, the latter was still running on Scriptogram ↩︎