Swap active tab color

[ludder]

I use a dark color scheme (Monokai). When I work in 2-columns mode and have 2 open files in group 1 and 1 open file in group 2, it's very ambigious what the active tab is. My proposal:

• Make the active tab lighter, not darker, than the other tabs.
• Don't hightlight the active tab in inactive groups.

I'm curious to see if others share my opinion.

[rmaksim]

Make the active tab lighter, not darker, than the other tabs.

in file /Packages/Theme - Default/Default.sublime-theme find

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    {
        "class": "tab_control", "attributes": ["selected", "file_dark"],
        "tint_modifier": [0, 0, 0, 0],
        "layer2.texture": "Theme - Default/dark_selected_tab_bg.png",
        "layer2.opacity": 1,
        "layer0.opacity": 1.0
    },

and replace color in

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"tint_modifier": [0, 0, 0, 0],

for example on

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"tint_modifier": [255, 255, 255, 100],

[ludder]

At first glance this didn't seem to work, but it appeared that the color scheme I use now (Blackboard) is not "dark", but "medium-dark".
Thanks!

Btw, are these settings overwritten when ST2 upgrades?

[castles_made_of_sand]

Keep your changes in `Packages/User/Default.sublime-theme`

[ludder]

Excellent! FWIW, my Default.sublime-theme:

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[
{
  "class": "tab_control", "attributes": ["selected", "file_medium_dark"],
  "tint_modifier": [255, 255, 255, 60]
}
]

[roychen]

Thank you all for this great sharing!! This is really useful to me....

[tanepiper]

Nice job, thanks for sharing - definitely think this would make sense being a ST2 default.

[donpdonp]

this is huge! one of those things I've wanted to change for many months but was unsure how to. Yes this should be the default for dark themes. It was driving me nuts for a long time.