More granular and extensive theming support

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
design, frontend

Research direction

Start by locating the current handling of the accent and foreground theme variables and tracing how popup colors, highlighting, and other UI styling are applied. The request spans RGBA, blur, tab styles, spacing, rounded corners, and hiding UI elements, so completion first requires agreeing on a scoped subset and its expected behavior.

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Describe the solution you'd like?
More granular and extensive theming support: see additional context.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Much of the UI appearance is controlled by just two color variables, `accent` and `foreground`.
Additional context
  • Finer control over color schemes, esp.
    • separate variables for popup background colors, maybe even one for each kind of popup, defaulting to shades of foreground only if unset
    • separate variables for different functions of the accent color, defaulting to shades of accent only if unset
    • additional variables to customize appearance of text highlighting
  • Support for RGBA colors (cf. #17)
  • Support for blur in backgrounds (incl. popups)
  • Theming support beyond colors, e.g.:
    • Different tab bar styles
    • Rounded corners
    • Custom padding amounts / margins (i.e., customizability beyond just compact vs. standard mode)
    • Ability to hide some UI elements (e.g. help or settings icons in the top right of windows)

Default warp dark theme except with foreground: #ff0000 instead of foreground: #ffffff to illustrate current coarse theming granularity.

Screenshot - Warp feature request - 2023-01-05
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Warp Internal (ignore) - linear-label:770f6576-d6c0-4e4f-a259-fc64b5156087

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