textual-theme-editor – A theme editor for Textual

[TomJGooding]

I wanted a project to showcase my color picker widget, and a Textual theme editor seemed an obvious choice. While it's still a work in progress, the initial release of textual-theme-editor is now on PyPI!

https://github.com/TomJGooding/textual-theme-editor

Any feedback would be much appreciated!

[edward-jazzhands]

Hey this actually looks really awesome. I like the program a lot, can't say I have much advice to give in regards to the app itself. But one thing I would really love to see is an entry script so that the program can be downloaded and run as a global tool using Pipx or UV. (which has the added benefit of being able to pipx run or uvx run the app straight from the internet without even downloading it)

[willmcgugan]

This is awesome! I'd love to see more themes, and this will really help build them.

Any chance you could add a CLI script, so we can do uvx textual-theme-editor ?

[TomJGooding]

Thanks both for your feedback!

I hadn't really considered this as a standalone tool, more as a package that developers could add to their projects to create themes. Maybe I'm missing some obvious benefits here?

[willmcgugan]

I'm not sure there is much value in embedding a theme editor in most apps. I don't think many users would go to the trouble, and devs might not feel the dependency is worth it.

I do think there is a lot of value for devs to create custom themes for their apps. And possibly submit them back to the core library.

Just my 2p. Although it can still be both. Getting it to work as a standalone app is a line or two in the pyproject.toml

[edward-jazzhands]

Yeah that is my reasoning. It only takes a single line added to pyproject.toml to create an entry script and there's no real reason to not have it. For my own Textual libraries I even make the demo apps runnable with an entry script, even though they are not global tools. It doesn't change or hurt anything to add it in, it just makes it possible to run it standalone instead of requiring it to strictly be a dependency in an existing python environment.