Colors are duplicated?

[Matt]

I am new to WMs and I had a question regarding to the config.py file where they specifiy the color theme. In most example configs I see, they create a list, with 'x' amount of nested lists repeating the same colors in the nested lists. e.g.

def init_colors():

return [["#2F343F", "#2F343F"], # color 0

["#2F343F", "#2F343F"], # color 1

["#c0c5ce", "#c0c5ce"], # color 2

["#fba922", "#fba922"], # color 3

["#3384d0", "#3384d0"], # color 4

["#f3f4f5", "#f3f4f5"], # color 5

["#cd1f3f", "#cd1f3f"], # color 6

["#62FF00", "#62FF00"], # color 7

["#6790eb", "#6790eb"], # color 8

["#a9a9a9", "#a9a9a9"]] # color 9

Why are these colors duplicated?

Thank You,

M

[James Wright]

It looks like if you give a list of two colors to the drawer (backend/base.py:Drawer), it will create a linear gradient from one color to the other (see the 'set_source_rgb' method for base.Drawer). Note that you don't have to do this; you can just pass in a single color if you want.

James Wright

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[Matt]

Ahhh......... Got it. Thank you very much.

I don't need gradients so I can just make a single list of colors.

Thanks again.

[James Wright]

Also, note that a color pair *must* be a list in the current implementation (backend/base.py#824). That should probably be changed to checking for a Sequence (excluding strings), but that's a minor issue.

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[Matt]

Yes, I already changed it to:

colors = [["#2F343F", "#2F343F"], # color 0

               ["#2F343F", "#2F343F"], # color 1

               ["#c0c5ce", "#c0c5ce"], # color 2

               ...

I will be refactoring a lot of things after I get familiar with the WM

Thanks