In Windows, especially when many editor tabs are open, almost impossible to see which tab is now active. Is it possible to make the active tab header stand out visually? Different background color, bold text or something?
Here "fisc.c" is active, but it's hard to tell.
AFAIK it is controlled by the GTK theme, not by Geany, so you can probably manipulate that with gtkrc if its gtk2 and css if its gtk3.
Yes, there is a **gtkrc** file here: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Geany\share\themes\MS-Windows\gtk-2.0\gtkrc". Will try to dig it. :)
Try the GTK2 manual if you can find it, seems to have disappeared since GTK4 came out.
Closed #2834.
Found a custom style here: https://github.com/ndwarshuis/BlackIce/blob/master/gtk-2.0/geany.gtkrc Already looks better. Will try to improve it for my taste. :) **elextr**, thanks for right search direction!
@DimTim-1963 NP
I will however take umbrage at the link above claiming we "hard coded" monospace. The default is monospace, but if its hard coded then why is there `Menu->View->Change Font` for the editor and `Menu->Edit->Preferences->Interface->Interface` having three font setting selectors? The user can select to use the system font in those if they want the theme to control it (at least here on Linux, on Windows YMMV).
[End grumble]
Agree. :) Still, the more configurability, the better. At least for my taste. And, BTW, Geany ignores lines like **bg[ACTIVE]** and **bg[NORMAL]**, and there is no style selector for default tabs (not changed, not read only etc). And yes, no option to use system fonts for menus etc in Windows... Anyway, thanks for good editor! Yes, there are mighty IDEs like VS Code or Sublime, but they are bloated and even don't support virtual space! O tempora, o mores...
I should perhaps have pointed out earlier (sorry) so you don't spend _too_ much time perfecting it, that the next release for Windows will use GTK3 and so use CSS style themes.
Good news, thank you! CSS is standard, easier to handle.
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