Change the background colour per tab

[dfoulkes]

Summary of the new feature/enhancement

Allow the user to choose a colour for the tab

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

customise the colour of the tabs by right clicking on the tab --> settings --> choose colour

BDD Stories

SCENARIO: user opens a new tab
GIVEN: has opened a new terminal
WHEN user right clicks the tab
THEN they are supplied with a settings option

SCENARIO: user wishes to change the colour of a tab
GIVEN: user is in the settings menu
WHEN wanting to change the colour of a tab
THEN user is presented with the current colour, and a colour wheel to choose from

SCENARIO: user selects a new colour
GIVEN: user has selected a new colour
WHEN user clicks OK
THEN the tab is set to the colour selected.

SCENARIO: user selects a new colour
GIVEN: user has selected a new colour
WHEN user clicks Cancel
THEN the tab remains the same colour as it did prior

[JushBJJ]

This seems like a original idea, I like it

[DHowett-MSFT]

FWIW a connected text-mode application can set the Terminal’s background color with OSC 11: \e]11;rgb:ff/ff/ff\e\\

[dfoulkes]

I hope by colour coding the tabs without changing the terminal colour also. The idea is to supply visual cues to help manage multiple tabs simultaneously.

[andrestest1125]

Yes please, VSCODE it's great already, you can make it similar

[dfoulkes]

I wonder, should this also include the ability to rename the tab ? I suppose that would be another ticket.

[DHowett-MSFT]

For color coding tabs we've got #1337 (nice number). I'm not opposed to this, but I'd like to understand whether OSC 11 works for this scenario. If it does, we can drop it back in the order to line up with #1564 and other UI things.

[ghost]

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[dfoulkes]

I would argue that #1337 is more about having a Permanent tab colour for a profile, my suggestion is that to help facilitate someone that’s let’s say has many PowerShell tabs open, to change its colour to help index them whilst working.

[dfoulkes]

Can anyone validate is OSC11 would work in the way this story describes ?

[zadjii-msft]

@dfoulkes just to help clarify, do you want to set the background color of the tab

or the background color of the buffer

at runtime? OSC 11 will work for the buffer:

but there's not a way to change the color of the tab at runtime.

[dfoulkes]

@zadjii-msft the story was aimed at the tab.

[DHowett-MSFT]

Whoops, sorry about that. My bad. In that case, this is #1337 😄