ricekit 0.2.0

A developer's TUI suite for Textual — themes, widgets, modals, icons, and the design system behind ltui, jtui, and sctui

🍚 ricekit

A developer's TUI suite for Textual.

The themes, widgets, modals, icons, and design rules extracted from building ltui — and now powering its whole family (jtui, sctui, same repo) — everything a fast, clean, rice-friendly terminal app needs, minus the app.

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what's in the box

module	contents
ricekit.themes	five themes — mocha, OLED-black void, monochrome onyx, clear (transparent: your terminal's blur shows through), system (your terminal's own ANSI palette) — all sharing one $kit-* CSS variable contract, with the scrollbar/selection fixes baked in
ricekit.palette	swappable chrome palette (palette.text, .dim, .blue, …) that flips to terminal ANSI colors under the system theme
ricekit.app	KitApp — registers the themes, flips ansi_color for transparent themes, injects CSS variables, replaces the palette's theme command with a live-preview picker
ricekit.widgets	NavList (vim keys, quiet cursor), Splitter (drag-to-resize with persistence hook, double-click reset), KitScroll, pop_in (the one sanctioned animation)
ricekit.modals	PickerModal (generic chooser), ThemeModal (restyles the app live as you scroll), HelpModal (keybinding cheatsheet from plain data)
ricekit.icons	curated nerd-font icons as \uXXXX escapes + unicode state glyphs (◌ ○ ◐ ◑ ● ⊘) + mini bar gauges
ricekit.fx	text effects — the letter wave (Wave + wave_markup: Gheat → gHeat → …) and braille spinner frames, driven by one cheap shared ticker
ricekit.storage	AppDirs — XDG state/cache/config with merge-on-save state and chmod-600 secrets
DESIGN.md	the philosophy: cache-first speed, shape language, color roles, motion rules — and the appendix of Textual sharp edges that each cost a day to find

see it

uv tool install git+https://github.com/Gheat1/ricekit
ricekit-gallery

The gallery demos the palette, icons, glyphs, widgets, and modals — cycle themes with t, live-preview every Textual theme with ctrl+p, drag the divider, press ?.

use it

uv add git+https://github.com/Gheat1/ricekit   # or pip install git+…

from textual.binding import Binding
from textual.widgets import Footer

from ricekit import KitApp, icons, palette
from ricekit.storage import AppDirs
from ricekit.widgets import NavList

DIRS = AppDirs("myapp")

class MyApp(KitApp):
    BINDINGS = [Binding("t", "cycle_kit_theme", "theme")]
    CSS = """
    NavList { border: round $kit-border; }
    NavList:focus { border: round $kit-border-focus; }
    """

    def compose(self):
        yield NavList(id="items")
        yield Footer()

    def on_mount(self):
        self.init_kit(theme=DIRS.load_state().get("theme"))

    def on_kit_theme_changed(self):
        if not self.kit_theme_previewing:
            DIRS.save_state({"theme": self.theme})

That's a themed, transparent-capable, live-previewing app in ~25 lines. Read DESIGN.md before building anything serious — especially the sharp-edges table.

the suite

• the tracker TUI suite — ltui (Linear), jtui (Jira), sctui (Shortcut); where all of this came from, now backed by Pantheon
• NaviTui — an animated terminal player for Navidrome, cover art and all
• yours next?

license

MIT — made by @Gheat1