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Emphasize focused editor group #17948

Open NiloCK opened 2 months ago

NiloCK commented 2 months ago

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Describe the feature

This may be different depending on colour themes, but I think there's a general point to be made.

When multiple editor groups are opened, the currently active (focused) group is displayed equivalently to the inactive group.

Possible suggestions:

do not highlight the selected tab on the inactive group (eg, leave it the same colour as the unselected tabs)
de-emphasise the fonts of the inactive group (see VSCode example below)

If applicable, add mockups / screenshots to help present your vision of the feature

It seems impossible to distinguish the active vs inactive group here:

VSCode counterexample with softer tab title text:

notpeter commented 2 months ago

It appears that VSCode dims the text color of both active and inactive editor tabs when there is an editor in focused in another pane. This dimming does not occur when you're temporarily focused on the terminal or project panel.