[Feature request] Expose colors

[AntoinePrv]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Some base16 projects are not build for all themes, either because they are out of date, or because they can register them from the user dynamically (e.g. https://github.com/echasnovski/mini.base16).

I would be nice to have a way to simply access the colors of the theme without further infrastructure.
If I understand correctly, tinty does not currently know anything about the current theme color, it only looks for filename with the theme name.

Describe the solution you'd like

A simple solution would be to reuse tinted-theming infrastructure with a repo tinted-json that would expose that.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Alternatively, it would be ideal if tinty integrated with tinted-builder-rust to generate the theme files from the template on the fly without having to setup a whole infrastructure for every base16 project

Additional context

[JamyGolden]

I don't really understand the mini.base16 plugin properly. How are the schemes used to create nvim colorscheme files? I just two files there and from my understanding you would need to create your own colorschemes based on their provided ones.

I could add that to tinty in a single command, like tinty apply base16-uwunicorn --build and have it build before applying, however you could create a script yourself:

set_theme() {
  theme=$1
  
  tinty build path/to/base16-template # uses tinted-builder-rust build command
  tinty apply $1
}

alias tinty-apply-build=set_theme

and then run tinty-apply-build base16-uwunicorn to apply the theme.

Would something like this solve your problem?

[AntoinePrv]

Thanks for the quick answer! I did not know about tinty build but I was using an outdated version, thanks for the update!
That does solve my issue yes. I think it's awesome because it greatly reduce the effort to setup a new base16 project.

I'm not fully familiar with mini myself, only that to set it up, you pass a palette as a map in neovim (there are no pre-built theme). In that sense I don't think it respects the base16 specification.

[JamyGolden]

Great, I'm glad it solves it for you!

Ah ok I see. For vim specifically we have https://github.com/tinted-theming/base16-vim which has all the themes built as part of it.