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Reducing the scope of the Plastic Theme project #198

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will-stone opened this issue Sep 21, 2023 · 2 comments
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Reducing the scope of the Plastic Theme project #198

will-stone opened this issue Sep 21, 2023 · 2 comments

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will-stone commented Sep 21, 2023

I've decided to reduce the scope of this project back to just being a VSCode theme but include links to other Plastic projects, here's some reasons why and some next steps:

  • I've realised having the same colour theme across all apps isn't actually very good for productivity. When all apps look the same, it's sometimes difficult to instantly know which app you're looking at.
  • You could argue that you don't have to choose Plastic for all apps, but if I don't use one of my own projects, I'd rather archive and move on. When I don't use something, I don't give it the attention it deserves.
  • My plans for world domination of the Plastic theme didn't really come to fruition. My plan was to theme-all-the-things like Dracula, but my heart's just not in it, and I've not had many submissions.

Next steps (not in any particular order):

  • Remove other themes and post their permalinks here, in case others would like to host and maintain them.
  • Simplify website, maybe it only needs to be a single HTML file, no need for a framework (it currently uses Next.js which is probably overkill). Or use Astro as it compiles to HTML-only.
  • Update website to spotlight the VSCode theme, but include a list of links for Plastic in other apps. This list can be PR'd to at any time.
  • Move website to plastic.wstone.uk. The current domain isn't required and is an extra cost I do not need.
  • Redirect plastictheme.com to new url.
  • Update any references in the wild to new url.
  • Migrate repo to a normal repo. No need for it to be a monorepo when there's only one theme project, and the website won't need anything sophisticated.
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Permalinks to previously supported themes:

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Updated as many instances of plastictheme.com I can find in the wild, so that means this is complete 🙂

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