Why is the colour of tasks inside Visual Studio Team Services suddenly the same blue as the Backlog items? Before is was yellow and therefore easy to distinguish.
It is just everywhere where it was yellow before, now blue:
This affects not only this window but it is also in the "tree".
The process shows it still yellow (I use the scrum template with small customisation):
It should be yellow according to the process:
VSTS is updating, the updated VSTS could custom the color for work item of Inherited processes:
Go to Process admin page
Select an Inherited Processes
Select Task
Click … > Edit and change color
We also seeing this on our VSTS.
I suspect this is to do with the change to icons instead of coloured bar, as described here: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-gb/articles/news/2017/jun-22-team-services#work-item-type-icons
Work item type icons We have made a global commitment to make our products fully accessible to our customers. As part of that
commitment, we have been working to find and address many
accessibility issues—anywhere from keyboard patterns to visual design
and layout.
Work item tracking has relied solely on color in many experiences to
convey work item type. However, this is problematic for our
color-blind or low-vision users who may not be able to distinguish
between items due to similarities in color. To increase the
scanability of work item types for all our customers, we have
introduced icons to our visual language of work item types. You can
customize your work item types by choosing from our icon library.
Color bars conveying type on the backlog and queries grids have been
replaced with colored icons.
Perhaps the rollout isn't fully complete yet...
See also: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/73306/cards-colour-is-only-blue.html
There was an issue with VSTS that was resolved last week. See https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/73306/cards-colour-is-only-blue.html
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I am trying to determine if its possible to provide a "richer" experience when using TreeViews in a VS Code extension. The default explorer view has the ability to do things provide custom text coloring for items (such as red when a file has an error or yellow if its been changed). However, the only highlight I can seem to find in TreeItems is only able to highlight text in an item without control over color but only select when the highlight starts/stops.
I would really like to take advantage of the same tree experience provided by the VS Codes extensions view but it does not seem to be restricted by the same API as other extensions (makes sense).
Any recommendations? I am considering just doing a webview that holds my own "TreeView" but wanted to see if there are other options before going down that rabbit hole.
When working with multiple tabs open, it is important to be able to identify which tabs "go together" or are more important than others. Is there a extension to VS code that let you assign different color for each tab individually or somehow otherwise group tabs together without wasting screen estate using split views
As of today it looks like there are no extensions allowing this. VSCode's team intentionally doesn't want extensions to change the VScode UI, so it looks like it won't be possible with an extension anytime soon.
It is a feature I would very much like to see in VSCode too, there is a feature request on github. Vote to get it seen and maybe added to VSCode !
After mild frustration with the difficulty to make top-level "plain old folders" within Eclipse for visual-organization purposes, I discovered that the thing I'm after is called a "working set". Hooray! But they don't seem to be rename-able, by any of the apparent avenues (right-clicking on it or using the Configure Working Sets window).
Is that just the way things are, since no one should be so lazy as to refuse making a new working set with the right name and transferring everything over? Or am I missing something obvious?
I also have a more minor question whose answer I already think I know. Can I tell a specific working set not to change its icon to have the "red X" when one of its children has an error? Nothing in the preferences under Debugging suggests to me the ability to turn off the automatic icon-changing. It's a useful feature, but I have a few simple practice projects with very basic errors, and I don't need the visual reminder to "fix" them, especially if they're in my "Practice" working set, whose icon I'd prefer not to change.
To rename a Working Set, you need to get to the dialogue of selecting a Working Set (click on the white down arrow at the top right of the package explorer > Configure Working Sets..), focus on your Working Set and click the "Edit" button. There, you can change the Working Set's name, as well as what's actually included in the Working Set.
There is no way (that I know of) to change the icon display to avoid showing the errors marker.
Is there a way in eclipse to assign certain files a colour (much like OSX's Finder):
Such that opened editor's tabs are assigned the same colour - (and maybe even the text editor's background
For instance if I am working with MVC, I could assign all the Models blue, all the Views Green, Mediators Yellow etc...
I can't find one, but it seems so natural/obvious to me I thought I'd better ask.
Else, does anyone else have problems visually grouping th
Kind of...
Please have a look at Andrei Loskutov's Extended VS presentation plugin which, as its name suggests, is a Visual Studio skin for Eclipse. It has some tab colouring features (although may be the one you describe).
On a general note Andrei's eclipse plugins have, since version 2.x, garnered a lot of well deserved praise...
I'm trying to find a legend that can help explain the different colors NetBeans uses to describe the state of a file.
Some of my file colors are:
Grey
Blue
Green
Any others I have yet to discover
If it helps, I'm using Netbeans 6.7 with CVS. What are these colors?
Green means new.
Blue means modified.
Grey means ignored and/or deleted. (Documentation contradicts the tooltip hint!)
If you go into the View menu, you can turn on Show Versioning Labels. That will put text next to each file explaining its state (and what each color represents).
Image from Netbeans.org
Using the online help and searching for icon/icons and or badge/badges should give you the information you want.
Alternatively take a look at BadgedIcons which at least explains some of the colors and icons (e.g. for version control)