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Should the current active window has its header bar's color changed by default?

Open qhuy4119 opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

Currently, only the title changes color. In the image below, it's hard to tell right away that the Variables window is active. Other tools don't have this problem because they always have a blinking cursor on the screen. Screenshot_20210715_124311

If we change the color of the whole header, it's much easier. Screenshot_20210715_123831

Of course the user can do it themselves by creating custom theme and modify the focused_sidebar element but I think this is asking too much.

qhuy4119 avatar Jul 15 '21 05:07 qhuy4119

I'm in favor of highlighting the current window better.

inducer avatar Jul 15 '21 22:07 inducer

Another alternative is to make sure that we consistently highlight the focused line. A lot of the themes will change the background highlighting of the focused line based on some context, which I think can be visually confusing to the user (at least it is for me).

mvanderkamp avatar Aug 14 '21 18:08 mvanderkamp