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Gruntfuggly / activitusbar

A VSCode extension to save some real estate by recreating the activity bar buttons on the status bar
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Support alternate status bar modes #29

Closed notpushkin closed 4 years ago

notpushkin commented 4 years ago

Some themes have white-on-dark status bar by default, but change it to black-on-bright for debug:

Status bar in regular mode Status bar in debug more

By removing the statusBar.foreground default for inactiveColour preference, we instead rely on the statusBar to set the colour for us, which adds support for debugging more and possible future modes as well:

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Gruntfuggly commented 4 years ago

I've merged this as I think you're right. It would be great to find a way of keeping the current view highlighted though. It works if you pick a colour for active that works in both, but it's hard to find one.

Gruntfuggly commented 4 years ago

Just thought you might like to know I've just published an update with gets the colour from the theme and reduces the alpha to 50% for the inactive icons, so there's no need to specify any colours while still allowing the active view to be highlighted.