There is no background that is always right, thats why Scintilla has made it settable I guess. But the grey has sufficient contrast with black on white text and white on black text (on my monitor with my eyes, YMMV).
Dimming the selection when not focused is a common idiom on Windows, and (IIUC) on Macos. Scintilla tries to work roughly the same on all platforms. The operative word is "dim", to become less conspicuous when unfocused, is the point of the feature, so choosing a bright colour is inappropriate for that use-case. Other cross platform applications that come from platforms other than Linux dim it, eg Vscode. Vim is Unix and from a terminal background where multiple windows do not exist so the feature was originally impossible, and Hasbeens is a Java Swing application IIUC which is Sun/Oracle Unix. -- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/3874#issuecomment-2119289017 You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Message ID: <geany/geany/issues/3874/2119289...@github.com>
