add support for lightline colorschemes

[hoob3rt]

As mentioned here, having the ability to use lightline's colorschemes would be a nice feature to have.

[shadmansaleh]

I think they will have to be ported . Those colorscemes are written in vimscript you are oviously not hoping to interprete them...

[hoob3rt]

t you are oviously not hoping to interprete them...

Yeah obviously not. The themes in lightline's main repo should and will be ported. This issue's aim is to discuss the possibility of using lightline's highlight groups in lualine.

The gruvbox theme I am using comes with both airline and lightline themes supplied, it would be great to have support for them.

But keep in mind this thread is for discussion only, I should remove the help wanted label.

Using lightline colorschemes will be redundant when #26 is implemented correctly.

[coxackie]

Do you mean that after #26 in implemented, there will be no colour schemes any more? Or will they be optional? My opinion is that, if #26 is actually successful, colour schemes should be dropped. This will relieve future maintenance significantly.

[shadmansaleh]

My opinion is that, if #26 is actually successful, colour schemes should be dropped.

I donn't think it should be droped . I shouldn't be forced to use same colorscheme on both editor and statusline . I should be able to chose separately.

Also I don't think themes require much maintanace .

[coxackie]

perfectly fine also, just make sure there is an option if we want to opt in matching the colorscheme on editor and statusline. I personally like the consistency that it would bring, but understandably there will be others that like more variety.

[hoob3rt]

perfectly fine also, just make sure there is an option if we want to opt in matching the colorscheme on editor and statusline. I personally like the consistency that it would bring, but understandably there will be others that like more variety.

Yes there will be. I think providing some popular themes out of the box is nice but you will also be able to set theme=auto to keep things easy and consistent

[shadmansaleh]

lightline to lualine theme converter

link

Open the file in vim with lightline installed. And run :luafile %
execute :lua light2lualine_theme_converter('theme_name')
. And you will have the theme . You can change the install_dir to set were you want the file to be . By default it will be in your current dir.

So basicaly any theme available for lightline is now also available for lualine . As we find someone to do the screenshots for THEMES.md

[hoob3rt]

@shadmansaleh the link and usage to your theme converter should be in the readme imo

[shadmansaleh]

the link and usage to your theme converter should be in the readme imo

Ha ha . I had written it as a throwaway script when I was conberting themes. As it was doing a pretty good job I shared it as a gist so it might be helpful if someone else is converting themes . When I was writting it I had no intention of sharing it . So it's horrible to look at . If you want to put it in README.md you can . The gist has uses instructions . So putting the link should be enough . Maybe in contributing.md insted of README.md.