A great way to configure this project using nix (also, thanks)

[BirdeeHub]

This file explorer is really cool. It seems well designed and I had a lot of fun getting it set up and am looking forward to having a wonderful custom file exploring experience. I only wonder why I have not heard of it sooner lol its very cool

I made a nix project recently which allows you to easily make nice reconfigurable wrapper scripts for programs using the module system.

I made an xplr module. Its really nice, acts as a plugin manager, allows you to specify the download of all the various command line utilities things require as well, and lets you mix and match fennel and lua. It doesn't require that anything in particular be inside or outside of the nix store, so you can have things be as pure or impure as you want (although only the things from nix will be managed by nix). Evaluating it as described in the getting started docs returns a package that has your configuration provided to it by nix that you can install like any other package.

Heres the doc page for the module:

https://birdeehub.github.io/nix-wrapper-modules/xplr.html

My configuration using the above module. Currently my config is all inline in nix but I will put some of it in its own files as time goes on Im sure lol

https://github.com/BirdeeHub/birdeeSystems/blob/f73aaa1ef22d05ac8f1142c28c783014b26f9084/common/wrappers/xplr/default.nix

(IDK if the ./desktop.nix thing works very well, thats just something Im trying out, the demo of my config using the xplr module is in the file I linked lol the other file in that directory is just to see if using that as a desktop file works well)

with nix build github:birdeeHub/birdeeSystems#xplr you can build my configuration too, although its nothing too special yet outside of being a demonstration of the module. I just found this project and have so far spent more time writing a module than using it lol but I had just the most fantastic time doing so that I had to post about it haha

[sayanarijit]

Thank you. Your project looks really cool 👍