hard to view the top right icons when Mica is enabled

[scott-xu]

Windows Terminal version

1.17.11391

Windows build number

10.0.22621.1778

Other Software

No response

Steps to reproduce

Create a custom theme and enable Mica:

        {
            "name": "Mica",
            "tab": 
            {
                "background": null,
                "showCloseButton": "always",
                "unfocusedBackground": null
            },
            "tabRow": 
            {
                "background": "#00000000",
                "unfocusedBackground": null
            },
            "window": 
            {
                "applicationTheme": "system",
                "useMica": true
            }
        }

Expected Behavior

No response

Actual Behavior

[zadjii-msft]

What is your OS theme set to? Light presumably?

I bet we're assuming that #00000000 is basically just #000000 and then picking the white foregrounds for those buttons, when the color will actually be light. Yikes.

I bet you could work around this with

            "tabRow": 
            {
                "background": "#ffffff00",
                "unfocusedBackground": null
            },

to trick the terminal into thinking that the color of the tab row will be #ffffff, and thereby chosing the dark foregrounds.

[scott-xu]

"background": "#ffffff00" fixes the issue. The release notes of 1.17.1023 needs to update.

[scott-xu]

[DanielRouxSA]

I just tested the workaround of setting the background to #ffffff00, but I find this does not actually fix the issue; it merely inverts the problem - the button icons are now correctly dark in light mode, but remain dark when dark mode is enabled, again making them almost impossible to see.

[electronic-dk]

Can confirm this has been an issue since the release of mica - icons are hardly legible when the terminal is in light mode. I assume the icon color selection logic when using mica should be the same as with "Use Windows theme".