change "$1 $2" in your script to $* ... give meld all the arguments


On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 4:11 AM, Aris Aris <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for the reply, I have tried to change the gtk theme with the tweak
> tool, but not with the result I expected. GTK_THEME=Adwaita:dark meld does
> the trick. So I just added a small script in /usr/local/bin
> '''
> #!/bin/bash
> GTK_THEME=Adwaita:dark meld $1 $2
>
> '''
> and created a symbolic link to it with the name meldark. So every time I d
> like a dark themed diff quest I can ask for it :D
>
> My only problem is that when I set my script or the link as the git
> difftool It doesnot work and falls back to meld... if I find a better way
> around this one I ll post back.
>
>  Once again thanks for the great tool. I will later post to this list some
> minor features I am missing, which probably I might have not yet figured
> out and if of interest, I will add them as issues to gitlab with feaure
> request tag. Will be glad to find the time and contribute to this project.
>
> Best regards,
> Aris
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 10:22 PM, Kai Willadsen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On 18 January 2018 at 20:04, Aris Aris <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >  I am trying to run meld with dark theme. I have installed the latest
>> > version (meld-3.18.0) and tried to load  meld-dark.css, either by
>> renaming
>> > it in meld.css or changing the respective line at /bin/meld from:
>> >  css_file = os.path.join(meld.conf.DATADIR, "meld.css")
>> > to:
>> >  css_file = os.path.join(meld.conf.DATADIR, "meld-dark.css")
>> <snip>
>> > I would appreciate some help, as I would really prefer to use meld with
>> dark
>> > colors.
>>
>> I can see what you're trying to do, but Meld doesn't use CSS for dark
>> theme changes; this changed in 3.15.0. We now rely on GTK+ to do the
>> dark theme selection for us, and use GtkSourceView schemes for
>> swapping out dark highlighting.
>>
>> If you're using e.g., Adwaita-dark as your GTK+ theme, or you've used
>> the global dark theme switch in Tweak Tool, then this should just
>> work. If you *just* want to make this switch for Meld, you'll have to
>> run something like:
>>     GTK_THEME=Adwaita-dark bin/meld
>> or see https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/14129/gtk-enable-
>> set-dark-theme-on-a-per-application-basis
>> for more complex options.
>>
>> > Also I would really like to contribute to the project. I have some very
>> > basic feature requests that I have found over time that would make
>> working
>> > with meld even more user friendly. How/Where would be the best place to
>> file
>> > feature requests so maybe some other people express their opinion and
>> maybe
>> > a few guidelines on how to work on it.
>>
>> We've recently moved from using bugzilla to GNOME's new GitLab instance
>> at:
>>     https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/meld
>> so if you want to file bug reports or small patches, that's the best
>> place.
>>
>> If you want to raise new ideas, this mailing list is usually the best
>> option, just for more general discussion and input.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Kai
>>
>
>
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