Major bugs in Debian. about i3wm-themer

[stav121]

Hello @cizordj , I checked your version, yes it's too different to even attempt to merge. But it seems to me that it can do the job for Debian users. If you wish, you can make a new PR on this project adding a link to your project at the bottom of the README.md. Maybe a new section Similar Projects or something if you want to.

[cizordj]

Alright, if you don't mind I will make this pull request soon.

[stav121]

Hello sir,

Yes I do agree that there are some major and minor issues depending on the Linux distribution that one uses. Personally (once I am running this project solo), I cannot always test every update on every possible distribution, so I always expect some bugs to occur here and there.

About the module issue, I have also faced it a few times and I believe it is mostly depended on the Python version. It gets a bit confusing sometimes with the versioning and the modules needed. I always hoped for this project to be distributed via PiPY in order to avoid those types of issues, but personally I don't have the time to spend that much on packaging.

On the Polybar issue, I haven't really looked into it that much so I cannot offer a complete solution.

Usability on every distribution would be like the optimal for this project, but sadly, the differences between some distributions make it impossible. As always I am always open to suggestions on such issues and always look carefully on PRs before merging them, so if you (or anyone) has any idea/suggestion/code on how to improve things, please don't be afraid to open an issue/PR.

[stav121]

One side note here, (not meant to be an excuse or anything), when I started this project I never expected so many people to find it useful, it was a tool that I created for my personal use that was supposed to work for the distro that I was running back then (Manjaro at the time).

My main focus for this project is always 1 or 2 major updates per year to fix known issues etc (that's the max time I can spend on this project usually), that's why I rely so much on other people's contributions and any change, small or big is always welcome.

[cizordj]

@Seraph87 my fork of i3wm-themer is mainly focused on Debian and has all the necessary dependencies built-in. Unfortunately, it is too different from the original project to make a pull request. Forgive me @unix121