Open Monokai opened 5 months ago
The preferred solution
would cause theme specific settings to be out-sourced to dozens of *.tmPreferences
files, which are unrelated to theming. How should that work with packages like File Icons or A File Icons which ship their own file type settings, but are not related with any theme?
Note, tmPreferences are always applied, regardless which theme is selected.
A layer.saturation
property would maybe solve the specific problem better.
@deathaxe
You're right, I hadn't considered multi-color at all. And I guess tmPreferences isn't the right place. It's hard for me sometimes to reason about what goes where and which files do what when. Anyway, my proposed solutions won't suffice.
A saturation filter would work in my specific case (albeit I'd rather define a specific desatured color), but what about when you want to display a different icon altogether (maybe an outlined icon variant instead of a solid filled icon for ignored files?).
Maybe just a simple filename override in the theme would work?
Problem description
I'd like to define different state colors for file type icons in my theme. Sublime Text works with pre-rendered images. You can use
layer.tint
to add a color overlay and you can uselayer.opacity
to fade an icon.Consider this use case. In the sidebar some files are ignored and I want to de-emphasize its colors. In my theme I'm giving the
sidebar_label
class a dimmed color so that works fine. I also would like to dim the icon image, but not via opacity. I'd like to have a monochrome file icon when the file is ignored, so basically a different solid color than a normal vibrant color.With the current properties I can't achieve this. Setting a tint on a pre-rendered colored icon doesn't work, it only makes it darker. Setting opacity also doesn't work.
What would work is pre-rendering icons as pure white icons and use the
layer.tint
property to color them. But then you can't use different colors for different icons anymore.Preferred solution
Keep only one pure white file icons set, use an optional
tint
color from a newly defined property in thefile_type_x.tmPreferences
file.Alternatives
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