WinBar highlight does not follow color scheme

[Leonid V. Fedorenchik]

What happened

WinBar hightight colors left as defaults.

What I expected to happen

WinBar highlight groups ToolbarLine and ToolbarButton set to colors matching dracula theme.

Screenshot

Machine Info

• Vim type: gvim
• Vim version: 8.2.2601
• OS: Manjaro Gnome
• Terminal/Terminal Emulator/VTE: Kitty
• TERM environment variable: xterm-kitty

[D. Ben Knoble]

Is this from a plugin? Where do the groups come from?

We can certainly add support for a plugin (?) or for something that's part of default vim; it's also possible to customize those colors yourself.

[Leonid V. Fedorenchik]

This is part of default vim. WinBar can be added as:

nnoremenu WinBar.test :test

and works like menu.

[D. Ben Knoble]

Apologies for the delay. I haven't given this much thought in terms of what colors are appropriate. Suggestions are welcome; perhaps @dsifford knows something about how we should style UI elements?

If you're keen on experimenting, :help dracula-customization makes a good starting point

[Derek Sifford]

I'll be honest and say I've never heard of winbar or any of the nnoremenu commands so I'm not even sure where to start.

I tried entering @fedorenchik's example in a blank editor and nothing seemed to happen.

[D. Ben Knoble]

@dsifford I think in non-gui vim you have to :runtime menu.vim, and then use :emenu <MenuName>.<item> to access the menu. In gvim, you have to not have M in guioptions. @fedorenchik are you using the toolbar also? On MacVim, the menu appears in the system's menu bar by default.

[Leonid V. Fedorenchik]

Here's recording of how WinBars work:

[Leonid V. Fedorenchik]

I use Linux GTK3 GUI, Vim 8.2.2601

[Leonid V. Fedorenchik]

This also works in terminal, as long as terminal supports mouse.

[Leonid V. Fedorenchik]

This is demonstration of WinBar in terminal vim clicking split button with mouse:

[D. Ben Knoble]

As I said I don't have much thought on this, nor the time to dig in to it. If we don't have a suggestion for a generic UI element, than I would recommend @fedorenchik try some things and come back with a suggestion.

[Leonid V. Fedorenchik]

@benknoble Sorry, I don't understand what you mean by 'generic UI element'? WinBar is similar to button toolbar, but can be attached to each window (and use "text" UI inside vim windows).

And what things you mean you recommend to try? If you mean real use case, there's vimspector (modern debugger for vim): https://github.com/puremourning/vimspector

Or you want me to send PR (should be pretty easy (add ToolbarLine and ToolbarButton highlights)) ?

[D. Ben Knoble]

It's a button /shrug we have all kinds of spec for programming- and markdown- specific syntax items, but the UI stuff (line numbers, etc.) is a bit more ad-hoc.

Yes, I'm suggesting you try some different things from the colorscheme's palette for those buttons and send a PR (w/ screenshot).