Key-Value pairs in the Yabar configuration

[BKer]

Issue description

The nixpkgs/nixos/modules/programs/yabar.nix file allows for adding extra parameters using the .extra parameter. The extra parameters are a key-value pair. This is perfect, however it turns the values into strings and for example the background-color-rgb does not take a String value type. There are several more non String options, see: https://github.com/geommer/yabar/wiki/Bar-specific-options

Steps to reproduce

Edit configuration.nix and add:

programs.yabar.enable = true;
programs.yabar.bars.topbar.extra: { background-color-rgb = "0x0000ff";};

Of course also run a rebuild
Effect, the bar does not change to the desired color.

Technical details

Please run nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m" and paste the
results.

• system: "x86_64-linux"
• host os: Linux 4.19.33-hardened, NixOS, 19.09pre174415.d956f2279b8 (Loris)
• multi-user?: yes
• sandbox: yes
• version: nix-env (Nix) 2.2
• channels(root): "nixos-19.09pre174415.d956f2279b8"
• nixpkgs: /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos

PS. This is all to the best of my current knowledge, as I'm pretty new to NixOS.

[c0bw3b]

cc @Ma27

[Ma27]

Hmm yeah, I vaguely remember that there were some kind of issues like this, unfortunately I don't use yabar anymore on my laptop.

My suggestion is to allow multiple types (e.g. types.either types.str types.int) for the extra values and add the quotes if the type is a string. The only thing I'm not so sure about is how to deal with the hex codes for colors as Nix doesn't support hex numbers on a language-level, but we can probably try to use builtins.match to detect a hex number.

Do you want to give this a try? The relevant file is in ./nixos/modules/programs/yabar.nix and you could use nixos-build-vms to test the change. Feel free to ping me if you need further assistance. If you encounter some unexpected issues then, I can also give this a try next week :)

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[wineee]

#415550
yabar was unmaintained and archived