Color your VS Code Activity Bar, Title Bar and Status Bar per workspace, so you
can tell your windows apart at a glance, without reordering your settings.json.
Why it doesn't reorder your settings
Extensions usually save colors with workspace.getConfiguration().update(),
which replaces the whole workbench.colorCustomizations object. Key order (and
any comments inside it) are lost on every change.
Tidy Tint edits the file as text with jsonc-parser, one key at a time:
an existing key gets its value changed in place;
a new key is appended at the end of its object;
removing colors deletes only Tidy Tint's keys, with their comma and line;
comments, indentation and line endings elsewhere in the file are left alone;
edits go through WorkspaceEdit, so you can undo them with Ctrl+Z / Cmd+Z.
Commands
Tidy Tint: Change Color (favorites, hex value or random)
Tidy Tint: Random Color
Tidy Tint: Remove Colors
Settings
Setting
Default
Description
tidyTint.affectActivityBar
true
Color the Activity Bar
tidyTint.affectTitleBar
true
Color the Title Bar
tidyTint.affectStatusBar
true
Color the Status Bar
tidyTint.favoriteColors
8 colors
Colors shown in the picker
The current color is stored in tidyTint.color.
Notes
In a multi-root workspace, colors are written to the .code-workspace file.
Save the workspace first.
Tidy Tint only controls what it writes. Other extensions, or the Settings UI,
may still rewrite workbench.colorCustomizations as a whole.
