XYplorer Beta Club

Because one of XYplorer's most important features is tabbed browsing of multiple directories, any features relating to quickly finding the right tab are also highly valuable.

To that end, I quickly adopted coloring of tabs.

However, it's hard to quickly distinguish which tab is actually the selected one, since there's only a tiny visual difference on the selected tab. The slightly higher tab shape is almost invisible, so mostly you have to go on the bold text and the "x" close symbol.

I noticed that there's an option to make the tab match the breadcrumb bar. That seemed like a great idea... except it works the wrong way around! The feature makes the chosen tab blue like the breadcrumb bar, instead of making the bar the same color as the tab!

If your brain has associated a color with the subject of each tab, then having the tab change color when it's selected is very disruptive! It also means you can't use blue as one of the tab colors.

So my request is to provide an option to change the breadcrumb color to match the custom color of the selected tab. The text color would also have to match.

What's the problem to identify the actual tab ?
Look on this

Maybe I'm missing something but as Horst showed in his picture.

Option to match breadcrumbs to tab colors... that's a cool idea.

Sorry I got it backwards, breadcrumb to tab, not tab to breadcrumb, but hopefully you'll maintain the "selected tab to breadcrumb" option.

I like this idea

Try it: viewtopic.php?p=214799#p214799

I really like this new feature a lot, very nice, makes using tab colors a lot more useful for me.

I have noticed though that it doesn't work in some circumstances, the basic repro for me is when creating a new tab from a colored tab, then I get the below situation, the active tab is as indicated, and I had created a new tab from the grey tab to the left of it. Subsequently switching tabs resolves it.

Next beta...

Hi all -- I'm the original poster for this topic. Sorry I didn't get back here right away -- my post was on hold I think, and then I didn't get notified when you all took up the discussion, and even made a trial implementation. Cool, and thanks!

Yes, cool feature, I'm actually using it.