Setting dark theme in _config.yml appears to be ignored

[joshbuker]

Using minima, setting the theme to dark inside of _config.yml appears to be getting ignored:

minima:
  skin: dark

The other configuration appears to be getting pulled in correctly, so it's not an issue of _config.yml being ignored entirely. It's specifically the theme value that has no effect.

To replicate, see: https://github.com/joshbuker/gsd-tools/tree/2269b5ba3a054844eaaf19598a6870a6245f658b/website

The issue happens both when running locally and when deployed via Cloudflare pages.

[corite]

I have the same Issue, both with a local and a Github Pages deployment.

[ashmaroli]

@joshbuker The "skins" are part of unreleased changes to the project. To use them, you will have to consume the theme via jekyll-remote-theme plugin.
(Caution: Some of the other changes included are not backwards-compatible. Use at your own risk.)

[joshbuker]

Gotcha, the confusion stems from the project README containing changes that have yet to be released.

Similar issue to #709, where unreleased breaking changes on main instead of a development branch is causing some problems.

The answer to my original issue is that themes aren't supported yet, and are coming in the upcoming 3.0 release.

[joshbuker]

For folks looking to use dark theme before 3.0 gets released, update your files as follows:

_config.yml

# Disable using the latest Minima release
#theme: minima
# And instead pull straight from GitHub via jekyll remote theme
remote_theme: jekyll/minima

plugins:
  - jekyll-seo-tag
  - jekyll-feed
  - jekyll-remote-theme

minima:
  skin: dark

Gemfile

group :jekyll_plugins do
  gem 'jekyll-seo-tag'
  gem 'jekyll-feed'
  gem 'jekyll-remote-theme'
end