make CONFIG_DIR configureable via option about sketchybar HOT 2 CLOSED

If you start sketchybar with the flag: sketchybar -c <path_to_sketchybarrc> you can supply any sketchybarrc file in any folder and then the CONFIG_DIR variable will be the parent directory of that file. This way you can change the CONFIG_DIR directory to any directory you like.

Does this help you with your problem? In any case, you can pass any environment variable to any script executed by sketchybar simply by setting it in the script variable prior to invoking the actual script, e.g.:

sketchybar --set <name> script='SOME_VAR=something /path/to/some/script.sh'

This way you could also overwrite the CONFIG_DIR variable passed to the scripts on update, since sketchybar sets the variable prior to the script being executed, such that setting up the variable in the script takes precedence.

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Well sadly this does not solve my problem since i have my own sketchybarrc in the .config/sketchybar folder, because i do not wanna use all of your modules.
Also i cannot set the variable in the sketchybar command since therefore i use the items scripts from your repository so i am not able to overwrite this ...

https://github.com/breuerfelix/dotfiles/blob/main/darwin/sketchybar.nix here is my setup (if you know nix a little bit). I managed to find a workaround for it and copy your items, colors and icon_map also to my .config/sketchybar.

But i also thought about the CONFIG_DIR as a global variable a little bit longer and i guess my proposal is not the optimal solution either. It think of your plugins like "packages" that i can consume and customize via variables (like config dir). So if someone else also has plugins, i just want to add them to my inputs and use them. This would not be possible with one config_dir variable which is the same for ALL sketchybar items added. In a dream world, i would need to have this variable to be modified for each item added and i guess that is more work for a niche use case ...
Thanks for mentioning these ways of customizing the varible, i didn't know that, maybe i come up with another solution :)

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