Improve VS Code theme status bar colors
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Description
Problem to solve
We recently published Gitpod Light and Dark themes on Visual Studio Marketplace and Open VSX (#4281).
However, when using the theme locally, the status bar does behave differently when there's no open file or folder, which is quite common with local VS Code.
See gitpod-vscode-theme.
| VS Code in Gitpod.io ✔️ | VS Code Desktop with files ✔️ | VS Code Desktop without files ❌ |
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Proposal
Use the same status bar colors when VS Code desktop does not have any file or folder open.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the linked gitpod-vscode-theme repository and comparing its theme behavior in VS Code Desktop with and without an open file or folder. Reproduce the desktop-without-files case and verify that its status bar colors match the working Gitpod and desktop-with-files cases.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- vscode
- Domain
- design, developer-experience
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100