dotmix is a template based solution to managing your dotfiles
dotmix uses several configuration files to specify keys and values that will replace placeholders in your dotfiles to modify them all at once and with minimal effort. This enables changing colors, layout and typographic variables quickly in multiple programs without digging in all the configuration files (more than once) and keeping different "themes" that go beyond what a GTK theme or a terminal colorscheme alone can offer in terms of customizability.
It also supports hooks that run before and after the file processing to make other operations like making symlinks or reloading your window manager to make the changes in the configuration effective.
For the time being, dotmix supports TOML as its configuration file format and moustache as its templating system.
Configuration files are split into 3 categories to allow modifying different parts of the dotfiles independently:
| Category | Examples of what could change |
|---|---|
| Color | Colors for terminals, colorscheme for text editors, etc. |
| Font | Fonts for terminal, fonts for GUI aplications, icons font, etc. |
| Theme | Layout variables (padding, margins), GTK theme, icon theme, etc. |
These categories are arbitrary, and you can put all the variables in your theme file for example, if you prefer that approach.
If you have a combination of colors, fonts or theme variables that are meant to go together, you can define a preset that will enable to set apply them your template without having to specify all the config files independently.
Any color, font or theme config file can extend other configs to make changing related configs (i.e configs that share variables) a simple task.