Open Remote Window appears strongly highlighted

[wesbos]

Moved from https://github.com/wesbos/cobalt2/issues/181

@sambecker

Not sure if this is intended behavior from VS Code or from the theme itself, but the effect is that it seems like some action needs to be taken.

[wesbos]

@sambecker I'm not sure how to get this icon to show up. What is it for? Remote connections?

[sambecker]

I have no idea. It only showed up for me after updating to the January 2023 (1.75.0) version of VS Code.

When I hover over it, it says: Open a Remote Window. It's a feature I don't think I've ever used.

[Asjas]

@wesbos It's for WSL on Windows. 🙂

Mine looks green because I use Peacock to change the color of all the major UI parts in VSC, but it's that Yellow by default.

If I click on it this pop-up shows.

[Sanqui]

It's not just WSL, I have this icon too on Linux and it does appear a bit distracting (in addition the hover state looks a bit wrong). Perhaps try installing the Remote - SSH extension.

[wesbos]

I see it now too. Not sure how VS Code decides which color it is. The hover color is weird too

[wesbos]

Some more info from Chris Dias. I'll ask if he knows anything about it

https://twitter.com/chrisdias/status/1622763233378721792

[chrisdias]

the color is statusBarItem.remoteBackground. It can be manually overridden for any theme by adding this to settings.json:

    "workbench.colorCustomizations": {
        "[Cobalt2]": {
            "statusBarItem.remoteBackground": "#ff0000",
        }
    }

[StephenBuley]

Hey Wes, I'd love to take a shot at this if no one else is working on it. I just completed my own VSCode theme Mando Dark and am trying to get more experience contributing to projects that aren't my own.

[wesbos]

@StephenBuley please do! I could use the help

[palashmon]

Fixed in PR #225