Request: move the tabColor setting from profile to color-scheme

[3SCadmin]

Correct me if I am wrong

• You can change the color-scheme of an open tab
• But you can not change the profile of an open tab
• The color of the tab is set with tabColor in the profile (can be also done manually)

In my use case I am opening ssh sessions to different servers. Often 2-3 tabs point at one server and 2-3 other tabs point at another.
I want to mark these tabs so I know at a glance who is who

• I can change the color-scheme of a tab so that I instinctively know which server I am currently sending commands to.
• I can change the tab-color manually, so that I know which hidden tab goes to which server.

But that's me choreographing 2 separate actions to achieve one objective.
Logically the tab-color can (should) be part of the color-scheme.

[zadjii-msft]

I'm fairly confident that there's a dupe for this somewhere on the repo, but I can't immediately find it...

[zadjii-msft]

Ah, #10861 was the dup, but suggested that we just use the theme for this. That's actually a good solution here. If you change the scheme at runtime, I think it should change the background to match.

oh wait but that's not a separate color. Hmm.

[237dmitry]

Logically the tab-color can (should) be part of the color-scheme.

What do I do if several profiles use one color-scheme but different tab colors?
In this case, users will have to clone the color scheme for each profile, but with different tabColor and name parameters.

[3SCadmin]

What do I do if several profiles use one color-scheme but different tab colors?
In this case, users will have to clone the color scheme for each profile, but with different tabColor and name parameters.

If you use profiles that works. But using different profiles for different tabs mandates that you decide in advance what the new tab will be doing. In my case I am often ssh-ing to different servers .. from different servers. So I may ssh to server A, then form there ssh to server B. I can quickly change the color-scheme of the tab to indicate that this tab is now connected to server B.

Point is: Using Profiles makes sense if you need different shells. But using different profiles just to get a different look is combersome (can't change your mind afterwards)

• We are already allowed to change the color-scheme of an open tab.
• conceptually tab-color is closely related to "color-scheme"
• tab-color can already be set in 2 different places (profile setting and manually) with one overriding the other
  ... so maybe make that 3 places we can set the tab-color? Manual > color-scheme > profile

[237dmitry]

Different profiles (different shells and TUI applications):

• using the same color-scheme
• using different tab colors

If the tabColor parameter is in a color scheme then the user will have to clone this color scheme with different tabColor values for each of the profiles. Therefore, it is more convenient for tabColor to be not part of the color scheme but part of the profile.

I do not know how do you start new tab but you can use --tabcolor #RRGGBB parameter.

wt -w 0 nt --tabColor "#123456" -p "You Profile"

[3SCadmin]

If the tabColor parameter is in a color scheme then the user will have to clone this color scheme with different tabColor values for each of the profiles.

If tabColor is moved from profile to color-scheme, then Yes
But if we maybe allow it in both, aka Manual > color-scheme > profile
Then the answer is: No you don't need to.

• All current color-schemes do not have a tabColor value, so the profile setting will prevail
• If new color-schemes come with a tabColor value, then removing that line (while you are inserting the color-scheme into settings.json) allows the current meta to prevail.

I'm just hoping for the quality of live upgrade where I can change the look of open tabs.

[237dmitry]

At last I understood. If the tab color options will have preferences over each other then your idea is really good.

[3SCadmin]

At last I understood. If the tab color options will have preferences over each other then your idea is really good.

... the idea got better as the discussion progressed

[237dmitry]

... the idea got better as the discussion progressed

It would be better to replace “move from profile” with “add to color scheme”.

Imho. Precedence: Manually > Profile > Color Scheme (because parameters of a color scheme are mandatory)