Provide keys to color status bar working (flame symbol)

[aeschli]

From @ajitid on June 29, 2017 15:14

Don't know what it is called

Are there any keys to color this?

Copied from original issue: microsoft/vscode#29873

[aeschli]

From @bpasero on June 29, 2017 15:34

Currently not, these colors are provided by extensions and are not theme aware as far as I know. But I think @aeschli was thinking of giving extension authors more access to theme colors?

[aeschli]

Yes, extension authors can now use one of the known theme colors, so they can be changed by users. @ajitid Do you know which extension this comes from?

[aeschli]

From @ajitid on July 11, 2017 10:51

That screenshot is of C/C++ extension from Microsoft

[aeschli]

Use StatusBarItem.color with a ThemeColor
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/theme-color-reference is the list of known theme colors.

[sean-mcmanus]

Thanks for letting us know about this. We should have a fix soon.

[sean-mcmanus]

@aeschli Actually, I don't see a ThemeColor that matches our desired scenario. We want a color for "busy" in the status bar -- some error color like red would work. Maybe we should change the UI to not rely on color and use some other progress indicator UI? Reworking the UI will probably not be till after our pending 0.12.1 update.

[sean-mcmanus]

We just got rid of the color (using the default foreground), since the image conveys the meaning well enough.

[sean-mcmanus]

@ajitid Fix has been released.