Rice System Theme Management

Rice System: Theme Management

The rice system is now managed through the Quickshell-first appearance workflow.

Canonical Commands

dots appearance list
dots appearance current
dots appearance apply neon-city
dots appearance set-variant vibrant
dots appearance set-mode dark
dots appearance set-wallpaper /path/to/wallpaper.jpg

dots rice ... is retained as compatibility naming, but dots appearance ... is the canonical interface.

What a Rice Controls

• wallpaper selection
• smart-colors / M3 palette generation
• light/dark mode and M3 variant
• GTK theme metadata and optional extras
• Quickshell-facing appearance state

Quickshell Integration

Appearance changes done from the control center can be previewed first, then committed with Apply/Save.

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  user[UserSelectsAppearance] --> preview[QuickshellPreview]
  preview --> apply[ApplyOrSave]
  apply --> cli[dots-appearanceApply]
  cli --> palette[dots-smart-colorsAndScheme]
  palette --> shell[QuickshellReload]

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Structure

Rices live under:

~/.local/share/dots/rices/<rice-name>/

Typical files:

• config.sh
• executable_apply.sh
• backgrounds/
• optional preview.*

Notes

• Legacy Rofi/JGMenu theme selectors were removed from the maintained path.
• The maintained desktop path is Hyprland + Quickshell.