Config files needed for customizing dmenu

[ghost]

Please make the dmenu customizable using config files in ~/.config/dmenu

Preferably toml or yml file.

[Shizcow]

I've thought about this one a lot. The only way I'd implement config files is if I also revamped the plug-in system. I want to do this, but won't have time in my life for quite a while.

Some ideas/desired features on this topic:

• ability to set default font / colors / etc
• ability to add default parameters to the command (as a fallback)
• ability to modify top / bottom / other already supported UI options

As for how plugins can interact:

• remove the compile time step, allowing this to be shipped with cargo install
• have plugins look in 3 locations during startup:
  • system package / run path. This way, in theory, you could install dmenu-rs plugins via your system package manager. Same as how arch handles python packages
  • .cargo: so plugins could be installed via cargo install
  • .config/dmenu: manual installation and plugins in development
• Alternatively / in addition to, plugins may need to be registered before use so they're not automatically loaded in (speed?)
• plugins can provide toml configuration keys available to modify in the main config file

Other ideas welcome

[Shizcow]

New plugin system won't ever happen without rust-lang/rfcs#1880. I've been waiting on this for a few years and it doesn't look like it's going to happen any time soon. So unfortunately closing this as wontfix.