Synced​Sidebar​Bg alternative?

[wolfie]

I use the package 'Synced​Sidebar​Bg" to keep the color scheme of the side bar in line with the main editor - it works reasonably well, but I see this in my console log (goes away if I remove Synced​Sidebar​Bg):
Errors parsing theme:
icon_file_type is missing layer0.opacity, setting to 1.0 for backwards compatibility
icon_folder is missing layer0.opacity, setting to 1.0 for backwards compatibility

Is there a cleaner way of achieving what Synced​Sidebar​Bg does? FWIW, my main color scheme is CheerfullyDark which I love.

[braver]

If you are on the dev builds, you can use the Adaptive theme. If you’re not, you’ll have to wait for the next public build. Exactly what you describe is a core feature in the latest builds.

[wolfie]

I am using Adaptive theme, build 3141 and still see this error when using Synced​Sidebar​Bg.

Without Synced​Sidebar​Bg, Adaptive theme does not make my sidebar ultrablack to match CheerfullyDark.

So, is this then a bug in Adaptive theme?

[braver]

If you’re already using Adaptive, I’m sure that Synced​Sidebar​Bg isn’t actually compatible. It should be more reliable to do this the manual way.

• create a new file Adaptive.sublime-theme in the User directory in the Packages directory.
• put this in it:

{
      "class": "sidebar_container",
      "layer0.tint": ["background", 0, 0, 0, 0]
  }

You can override every aspect of a theme like this.

[wolfie]

OK, but I was hoping for it to be fully automatic which is what Synced​Sidebar​Bg is promising.

[braver]

It is automatic. "background" tells it to match the background of your code. The default is to have a little transparency but the last 0 in there disables that. Before the latest dev builds you need a plugin because the theming engine doesn’t actually support this. Now it does and it’s fully automatic. You could go and publish a package that does this, but it doesn’t make sense to put all that work into 4 lines of code.

[wolfie]

Oh, I see, thank you for the excellent explanation!