"Editor Color Scheme" option is not available when using the "Use system setting" color theme

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I'm using the "Editor Color Scheme" option which is set to the value "Visual Studio 2019" under Tools > Options > Text Editor > C# > Advanced for the Blue color theme as well as for the Dark color theme.

When using the color theme "Use system setting" (under Tools > Options > Environment > General), the "Editor Color Scheme" option is not available any more. The message there states: Editor color scheme options are only available when using a color theme bundled with Visual Studio. The color theme can be configured from the Environment > General options page.

This is not expected behavior since the "Use system settings" color theme should just switch between the Blue and the Dark theme which both are bundled with Visual Studio. Unfortunately, I don't want to use the "Use system setting" color theme, when the "Visual Studio 2019" editor color scheme is not available there.

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Original Comments

Feedback Bot on 3/25/2024, 08:29 PM:

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Original Solutions

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[sharwell]

📝 This is going to require a fair bit of work to fix. ColorSchemeApplier is designed around a premise that each value in KnownColorThemes maps to a fixed set of default colors. The KnownColorThemes.System theme deviates from this by changing its values based on other system settings.