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per-project themes?

Is there a way to have Wing change the theme/color scheme based on the project?

Here's my use-case. I have two development directories, each with an associated Wing project. One is my primary development branch, where I'm dealing with day-to-day things. The other is a branch where I'm making major changes. I'd like Wing to give me an obvious visual signal of which project I'm working on, so that I stop making my day-to-day bug fixes on the "major change" project.

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asked 2025-04-02 08:16:52 -0500
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There isn't a way to tie this to which project is open. You could use the --prefs-file=/path/to/preferences command line option for Wing to launch with different preferences and set a different theme in each. Or actually --settings=/path/to/settings-dir is also an option, which would use entirely different settings including also things like which project to open by default at startup.

Of course that won't help if you're just switching projects within Wing, but might still be a way to get to a work flow where it's clearer which Wing is which, assuming you either run multiple concurrent instances or just get into the habit of running Wing with one of several custom startup scripts.

I have at times thought that projects should be able to override any preference, which maybe would be the way to address this.

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answered 2025-04-02 13:24:15 -0500
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