Tabs don't seem to respect theme.normal.tab_color and theme.active.tab_color

[vendion]

Using herbstluftwm 0.9.5 with the max layout tabs, the tabs doesn't seem to respect the theme.normal.tab_color and theme.active.tab_color attributes. As an example, I have theme.normal.tab_color set to #4c566a and theme.active.tab_color set to #5e81ac (and theme.urgent.tab_color to #bf616a). Unfortunately, it appears that these values are getting ignored and only the active color is used.

Note the split in the image is via Kitty, but even if I don't use Kitty terms splits I get the same result.

[t-wissmann]

tab_color always refers to "the color of non-urgent and unfocused tabs" (from the docs). This means that

• theme.active specifies all colors needed to render the decoration of focused clients, hence:
• theme.active.tab_color is the color of unfocused tabs in the focused client's decoration.
• theme.active.color is the color of the focused tab in the focused client's decoration
• theme.normal.color is the color of the focused tab in unfocused clients' decorations
• theme.normal.tab_color is the color of unfocused tabs in unfocused clients' decorations

Does this help?

[vendion]

Okay, so theme.{active|normal}.color and theme.{active|normal}.tab_color should be different values.