Setting theme with +kitten themes produces empty current-theme.conf

[smeikx]

Setting color theme/scheme using kitty +kitten themes does not work since 0.28.0, it only produces an empty current-theme.conf.

To Reproduce

1. kitty +kitten themes
2. select theme
3. press m
4. an empty ~/.config/kitty/current-theme.conf has been created
5. ~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf now contains this:

# BEGIN_KITTY_THEME
# Ayu Light
include current-theme.conf
# END_KITTY_THEME

The same happened with a different theme and when directly specifying a theme: kitty +kitten themes duckbones

Environment details
I tried it on Linux (Gentoo, sway) and macOS, each with my custom config and a completely empty ~/.config/kitty/kitty.conf.

[kovidgoyal]

Works for me with

mv ~/.config/kitty /tmp && kitty +kitten themes duckbones && cat ~/.config/kitty/current-theme.conf&& rm -rf ~/.config/kitty && mv /tmp/kitty ~/.config

The duckbones theme is displayed, as expected.

[smeikx]

I overlooked a major detail, sorry for being sloppy:

I forgot I have ~/.config/kitty/themes/, containing Ayu Light.conf and duckbones.conf! Out of habit I subconsciously only tested with themes I am familiar with. 🤦

It seems only overwritten and custom themes are affected. When running kitty +kitten themes Grape everything works as expected.

But by

1. storing the output of kitty +kitten themes --dump-theme Grape in ~/.config/kitty/themes/Grape.conf (curiously, using > did not work)
2. and running kitty +kitten themes Grape

the same thing happens as described in the issue. After removing Grape.conf it worked again.
I also copied Grape.conf to ~/.config/kitty/themes/testy.conf and tried setting this entirely new theme, but with no success.

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PS: I noticed that the name in the comment header in a theme file (## name: duckbones) seems to have precedence over the file name when selecting a theme. This is not mentioned in the documentation, specifically this line is misleading:

You can use this to modify the builtin themes, by giving the conf file the name Some theme name.conf to override the builtin theme of that name.

[huyz]

Same. The switching with user-defined themes is broken and I end up with an empty current-theme.conf

[olimorris]

Yeah I'm having this issue too.

[AdsonCicilioti]

I'm confirm this bug! The strange thing is that it was working normally. But today after an update no more.

[huyz]

There's no need to add "me too"s. This issue was closed because it was fixed by Kovid. So you can expect the fix in the next release.