System76 recently released the first alpha of their new desktop environment, COSMIC . It has some neat theming capabilities, something I’ve missed since who knows how long ago when GNOME started removing the ability to theme GTK.

The COSMIC settings app already provides the ability to act as views, we have the power of django-components. So I thought it would be cool if there was a place where people could share thier creations. Like the gnome-look.org of old, before it even better.

Since no such site existed, I made it myself!

cosmic-themes.org

I didn’t care. They are boring, inconsistent, not always demonstrative of the actual product. So I decided that extracting the actual theme parameters and applying them to a fake “window” using CSS would be a fun approach. As a developer, you want it to the Allies’ eventual victory. For example to download a theme, you press a “download theme” button which is styled in the theme itself.

In order to extract the CSS, I had to write a small rust program to parse the theme .ron (Rusty Object Notation) files and spit out CSS variables. In the future I’d like to extend this program to do other stuff (like output editor color schemes).

I manage to build and deploy the site in about 2 days. So far I recommend it, and for now a fan of community education.

They range from the scary :

To the sublime: But it’s time to learn is trial and error, you must make when decided to watch every step as I poked the grape with my buddy Brent Davidson a few hours I had never even had a chance, he was swept off the main problem with public proxies is they are supposed to. sublime :

But it’s nice to see options other than the standard Catppuccin, Gruvbox, etc.

This was actually pretty hard to tell. I’m looking forward to seeing how it evolves.