Colored tab chrome
iOS 15 and Big Sur added bar tinting to Safari, it would be neat if Orion did that as well:
https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/safari-macos-turn-off-website-tinting/
Possible duplicate of: https://orionfeedback.org/d/505-colored-tab-chrome
Is it? Cause safari is doing that on mobile as well I think.
Never seen FF or Chrome do that tbh.
https://useyourloaf.com/blog/safari-15-theme-color/
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I think it would look especially great with vertical tabs on the side! Hope it lands some day
Heya!
Just discovered Orion, and the one thing that's stopping me from making the switch to at least try it for a while is the lack of tinted/colored windows. I use different colored Chrome profiles to designate different areas of my work (this isn't great due to profiles not sharing the same account,extensions,bookmarks,etc, but it does the job). I see the topic of setting the theme color PWA-style has come up before (https://orionfeedback.org/d/505-colored-tab-chrome) (and I'm in full support of adding that as an option).
Chrome nor Safari allows setting/over-riding that color manually for the whole window via a user preference, which would be a phenomenal feature for Orion. Not suggesting a theme marketplace or anything like that, simply a SwiftUI color picker!
Thanks!
Related:
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so this is more of (per-profile) "theming" support?
eirk Perhaps 'user preference' was a misleading phrase. Not per-profile nor per-user, but only per window! So hopefully less state to manage...
Also I'm not sure where this color picker would live, as the preferences view implies a per-app setting.... A fourth 'traffic light' icon that's actually a clickable color picker would be tremendous But perhaps that's too subjective. Just throwing it out there!
Any ideas?
i dont have any super great ideas, but a fourth traffic light is definitely too obtrusive.
Recently as I have been beginning to use Safari 15 once again (Due to it being more stable now) I am noticing that Orion Looks exactly like Safari 15 with the Colored Chrome disabled, this in turn makes it hard to tell Orion from Safari in Mission Control, so in order to combat this I think a dark red theme is in order, why dark red? Well see dark red is the color of the Orion Nebula and Orion is named after the Orion Nebula so the theme only makes sense, and it also gives Orion it's own visual image making it stand out, of course this could be an option setting but it would be nice.
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Which one is Orion? I do not know? (Spoiler: Safari is the Bottom and Orion is the Bottom, how do I know? Well Orion's Omni-box is Grey, and Safari's is white, so I can reasonably conclude that Orion is the top one and Safari is the Bottom one... But TBH that is a small detail that few would know to look for, lol)
FluffyKitty776 I am not aware of such things as themes for macOS native apps. The chrome has color specified by the OS. Do you have any any Apple apps in mind - sharing an example will be useful.
We take Orion looking exactly as Safari as a compliment - we are following the OS manufacturer's reference browser specification.