Awesome

thayne.zsh-theme

A simple zsh theme that just does what I want

Features

• Iconography using nerd fonts
• Show status code of previous command if non-zero
• Show duration of last command, if > 1 second
• Show current time
• Show current directory
• Show current git branch

Why I made this

I used powerlevel10k for a while, and I think that it is a great project. However, I came to the conclusion that it was too complicated for what I needed, and making my own theme would work better for me personally.

The specific issues I had with powerlevel10k are as follows:

• It includes a ton of features that I don't use
• Because it does so much, the code is difficult to understand without spending a lot of time studying it
• Editing the configuration file is pretty difficult. The configuration generated by the interactive wizard is huge, and while it is possible to trim it down, getting what I wanted was still a considerable amount of code.
• Although there is a lot of configurability, it isn't well documented. You have to rely on documentation for powerlevel9k, and the limited comments in the generated configuration file.
• It requires compiling a c program for git status, which itself links to a patched version of libgit2 that needs to be compiled
• It uses an unusual directory structure, which makes it difficult to install as a system package

So, much as I appreciate the work done by romkatv, I realized that I could create my own prompt that did everything I needed without having to depend on a massive project like powerlevel10k.

Future improvements

Some things I'd like that this doesn't do yet:

• Some kind of directory shortening if the currend directory is long
• Show if the current git repo is "dirty"
• Something like powelevel10k's transient prompt, but keep the time, duration, and status code.