Per-project themes (multiple active themes)

[norman784]

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Describe the feature

I would love to customise the theme per project, the local settings does not support this override at the moment.

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[notpeter]

Interesting. I don't see this being an immediate priority, but it'd definitely be nifty to be able to visually differentiate between multiple open projects based on theme / color of the window.

I don't think it would make sense to specify theme overrides in a project specific .zed/settings.json because then any collaborators on that project would then be forced to use the same theme overriding their personal theme selections.

So this would be in a user's ~/.config/zed/settings.json with something like:

    "theme_override": {
        "proj1": "Solarized Dark",
        "proj2": "Solarized Light"
    }

Or were you thinking it'd be explicit override for a portion of a given theme?

    "theme_style_override": {
        "proj1": {
            "element.background": "#0b342d"
        }
    }

[norman784]

I don't think it would make sense to specify theme overrides in a project specific .zed/settings.json because then any collaborators on that project would then be forced to use the same theme overriding their personal theme selections.

I didn't consider that scenario, but also I usually do not commit my editor preferences to the repository, because not everyone in a team uses the same editor.

[notpeter]

Note I altered the title from theme override to reduce confusion.

There is an existing, similar but unrelated, experimental setting named theme_overrides:

  "experimental.theme_overrides": {
    "editor.background": "#000000"
  },

Doesn't help you (only works in global .zed/settings.json) but somewhat related.

[markiol]

Would love to see that feature as well!
Apparently, the last one to switch from vscode!
I use two separate vscode projects for an api and a frontend, so It's really easy to distinguish between open projects based on the editor theme

[EliantenHolder]

This is a core part of my dev process too, I normally use a VSCode plugin called Peacock to differentiate editor windows currently (especially useful when working with multiple versions of the same codebase). So anyway to set different themes for different project/folders would be appreciated. I tried setting a theme in a project specific settings.json but it did not give the desired effect.

[tino]

Second that on the Peacock extension. If I could just give the top bar a different colour (via local .zed/setting.json is fine for me) that would make it much easier to recognise which of the 3-4 open Zed windows I need!