heinous purple status bar when i do a clean install

[thewintersolstice]

• VSCode Version: Code - Insiders 1.8.0-insider (dbf3ba7, 2016-11-04T10:15:01.593Z)
• OS Version: Windows_NT ia32 10.0.14393
• Extensions:

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Install VS Code.
2. See purple status bar.
3. Fill barf bag.
4. Thank you.

[bgse]

There is a fix for that:

File -> Open Folder

[thewintersolstice]

Thank you for your reply.
1: Are you joking?
2: In all VSCode screenshots statusbar is blue not purple. Why is mine purple?
3: Need to have option to set statusbar color, or have theme set/affect statusbar color.
4: Thank you.

[bgse]

Not joking. The status bar color does depend on what you are currently doing in vscode.

The blue status bar you see in screenshots means that you have a folder opened in vscode (when you are working on a project).

If you go into debug mode, the status bar will turn orange to show you are in debug mode.

Your status bar being purple tells you that you have not opened a folder yet (working on a project folder is the "normal" mode of operation in vscode), and that features relating to project folder are not available.

So to get the blue status bar, you will need to open a folder (File menu -> Open folder). Since there is no heavyweight "project" concept as in other IDEs, opening a folder tells vscode that this is to be treated as the root folder of your project, and everything in there is part of your project.

It does understand various "project" type files in your working folder though, and take advantage of those. See here:

http://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/codebasics

[thewintersolstice]

Thank you for your answer. First, I salute your knowledge! (not joke, I do).
1: Due to nature of day job 95% of the time I work on individual files which are all over the place: html, css, javascript, sql, php, csv, xml, json, txt. (The other 5% is Powershell which is all in one folder)
2: Does that mean that I'm stuck with the evil purple status bar?
3: Can we have an option to set status bar colors? I look at a monitor for 8-12hrs a day, I need to work with colors that don't burn my retinas. Soft pastels for example. Please?
4: Thank you.

[bgse]

As far as I know, theming the status bar is currently not supported directly.

However, vscode is very hackable, and at its core, the UI is HTML/CSS.

You could probably make your own override CSS for this:

.monaco-workbench.no-workspace > .part.statusbar {
    background: #68217a;
}

This is what makes it purple when no folder is open (specifically, the "no-workspace" class), you could replace that with any color you want.

Check out menu "Help -> Developer Tools", you basically get Chrome developer mode and can play around with the UI any way you want and try things out.

[rebornix]

Close as dup of #1884 and @bgse it's not a bug.