stuartcrobinson/unique-window-colors

Cannot Uninstall [!!!]

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jrodl3r commented

I have tried everything to get rid of this config for all my projects, and it seems to be stuck loading up the green titleBar + activityBar for one project.

Been tinkering with this for over an hour trying to remove/override whatever setting is being controlled for those elements background colors.

I've done the following already:

  • disable the package
  • remove the package from VSCode
  • remove the folder in /.vscode/extensions/
  • reset ALL VSCode Settings....

Please advise.

jrodl3r commented

Yea, I would update your README to let people know they need to remove the .vscode folder that gets added to their projects if they want to undo the settings (maybe I missed it?) 👍

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stuartcrobinson commented

hey thank you for letting me now. good idea for the README. working on a next version for the extension now. working on improving the uninstall process & docs

have you tried deleting the colors from .vscode/settings.json?

jrodl3r commented

yea, that was the most frustrating part - I couldn't undo or override the settings on a global level (in settings.json). All good 👍

stuartcrobinson commented

gotcha, cool. makes sense. thanks again for the feedback!

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Mark-L6n commented

FYI, It appears that .vscode/settings.json can be used for other projects as well, so you shouldn't just automatically delete the .vscode folder (as suggested above, but thanks for the comment jrodl3r, otherwise I wouldn't have found this).
This project appears to add the lines:

  "workbench.colorCustomizations": {
    ...
    "activityBar.background": "#312B3D",
    "titleBar.activeBackground": "#443C55",
    "titleBar.activeForeground": "#FAFAFB"
  }

So only those 3 lines should be deleted, if there are also other items in workbench.colorCustomizations.
Of course, if there is nothing else in .vscode/settings.json, you can go ahead and delete it ;-)

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HaveSpacesuit commented

It would be kind of the extension to automatically remove those settings on uninstall.

Though, I found it was necessary to open the .code-workspace file for each of my customized workspaces to undo the custom colorization. I suspect it would be difficult for the extension to know how to access all the updated workspaces. But having clear documentation would help.