[Feature request] Colored tabs

[sas33]

Description of the Issue

i got lost sometimes when i work with large numbers of php pages or html. if i could group by colors
the tabs it will be more easier to reach what i want without searching for the filename in the tabs.

Steps to Reproduce the Issue

Expected Behavior

colored tabs by the choice of the user (red,blue, green, etc)

Actual Behavior

they are all grey and indistinguishable

Debug Information

[Pyre909]

Why not set the color according to file type? Just food for thought.....

[sas33]

@Pyre909 ok but when i have like 15 php file types and i want to group them by colors this will come in handy

[spaxio]

It's old ticket, but I really needed this so I forked the repo and made it possible.
spaxio@db92d1f

https://i.imgur.com/Rlgt94T.png
We can select between 5 different colours. It works in dark/light mode.

I could open a pull request if @donho is interested, I'm pretty open to adjusting it more.
But if not that's cool too. As I said I really needed this in my npp workflow :D

[donho]

@spaxio
Please do a PR - I will try it out.
It looks very promising - from the aspect of GUI and simplicity of modification.

[alankilborn]

Would this color be saved in session?
Does this open the door to tab color by file type?

[spaxio]

#12098

Would this color be saved in session?

Yes it's saved in session.xml file

Does this open the door to tab color by file type?

We have access to the file type so it's possible but we would need to add some simple algorithm calculating colour for given file extension (or parent directory)

[sas33]

Thank you!

[JergenRoss]

We can select between 5 different colours. It works in dark/light mode.

um, does User can use custom color will work? also more select 5 to up?

[JergenRoss]

Why not set the color according to file type? Just food for thought.....

I think my suggest is name file type colored .txt .bat with tag instead tab

example:
tab yellow: new document [.txt]

[] is colored by according to file type
tab yellow colored is user want to group them to colors.

User can prefer change color different file types

Im not sure if who want color by file types or notepad+ GUI will work both tab and tag.