Profile template changes theme

[bamurtaugh]

I created a Profile from the default Python template, and it switched my color theme (from light to dark). I wouldn't expect this Profile to affect my theme - not sure if it's a way to distinguish Profiles visually more?

[alefragnani]

Hi @bamurtaugh ,

It’s just trying to bring you to the dark side 😆

I think this happens because the Visual Studio Code default theme is Dark Modern, and since the Settings content in the Python Profile Template doesn’t override it, it will be the theme of this new Profile.

To avoid this behavior, the new Profile should merge some settings from the Default Profile, instead of creating a new one. I wonder if a new setting to define such behavior would be an alternative (with a list of settings to be merged), or the Profile inheritance feature #156144 in the backlog.

Hope this helps

[isidorn]

I agree, this is subset of #156144
So let's close it as a duplicate of that one.