The colors of active and inactive tabs are confusing

[1r00t]

Description

Switch the colors of the active and inactive tabs.

Benefits

It is more clear to the user in which tab he is currently working in. As it is now, it looks like all inactive tabs are connected to the current open document and the active one is not.

Possible Drawbacks

None

Alternative Solutions

Make the inactive tabs a different color than the currently open documents background color.

[1r00t]

I created a pull request: https://github.com/arcticicestudio/nord-visual-studio-code/pull/194

[Mimameid]

I created a pull request: https://github.com/arcticicestudio/nord-visual-studio-code/pull/194

Why isn't this merged yet?

[svengreb]

Thank you for your patience! 🙏🏼 It‘s been a while since I had free time to focus more on Nord, and my open source projects in general, and invest time in this issue due to work-life balance.

I recently published the first “Northern Post — The state and roadmap of Nord“ announcement which includes all details about the plans and future of the Nord project, including the goal of catching up with the backlog. This issue is part of the backlog and therefore I want to triage and process it to get one step closer to a “clean state“. Read the announcement about reaching the “clean“ contribution triage state in Nord‘s discussions for more details about the goal.

Therefore it has been added for triage in the central and single-source-of-truth project board that is also described in more detail in the roadmap announcement.

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@1r00t Thanks again for your contributions 🚀 Changes like this can be, like already mentioned, made by customizing the theme to fit your needs. However, the topic could be re-evaluated to include the VS Code changes that were made to the UI in the meantime if necessary to see whether it can be adapted in other ways. The arguments regarding the layer color effect is still valid, but the design is not directly related to code/text editors which might require dedicated handling. Therefore this issue will be triaged.

[svengreb]

@Mimameid ⬇️

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