Forked Zed to add animated wallpapers, window transparency, and a visual theme browser (113 themes)
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Wanted background art in my editor the way some VS Code/Neovim setups have it, so I built it directly into GPUI rather than as a plugin.
What's added:
Editor wallpapers — static PNG/JPG or animated GIF, drawn during the paint phase with cache eviction on theme switch so memory doesn't grow the longer a session runs
Window transparency with compositor blur
A visual theme browser (grouped by wallpaper, with previews) instead of a flat list of a hundred names
113 themes (90 dark / 23 light), colors and most wallpaper art from doki-theme (MIT), a handful hand-assembled myself
Repo + prebuilt binaries for Linux, Windows, and macOS: https://github.com/Unkno394/zed/releases/tag/v0.3.2-aura
Source: https://github.com/Unkno394/zed
Details regarding wallpaper rendering (on-the-fly drawing vs. pre-rendered images, memory usage)—for those interested in GPUI's internal mechanisms—as well as separate screenshots and GIFs of the wallpapers, can be found in the README file