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[niri] Gruvbox Setup
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Waybar uses GTK stylesheets for the theming. In theory, GTK CSS does have support for transitions and animations, which could be used in your case. But I'd say it's a hard sell still. That aside I've never tried them in GTK, so I wouldn't know if they even work in practice or how far.
I think you have a shot at this with
ewwinstead. But it's harder to work with and you'll need to make somewhat complex scripts I'd imagine.Uh huh! 😆 I was running i3 for like a decade before very recently, and a couple of years ago I got tired of the limitations of polybar and I basically rewrote all of its functionality and the modules and behavior I wanted beyond that, in eww widgets. Took me a few months to get everything the way I wanted to have it, with rich media control widgets and weather widgets and i3 workspace control and styling and, and, and.
It was super possible! But it was clunky for sure. Lots of supporting scripts and lots of strongly coupled integration of those scripts and manually refreshing eww state data in my i3 config bindings.
I've been eyeing Aylur's Astral widget system as well, but I'm a little hesitant that it'll be more of the same—configuration by programming (which is fine), with big gains in functionality, but with little gain in terms of appearance.
Yesterday I heard of https://quickshell.outfoxxed.me/ but have never tried it myself. They have some pretty decent examples of widgets on their homepage. I think they have their own little langauge called QML which appears to be turing-complete.
Maybe that's what you're missing.