[GH-ISSUE #874] Selected pane is hard to see #371

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opened 2026-02-28 14:48:45 +03:00 by kerem · 1 comment

kerem commented

2026-02-28 14:48:45 +03:00

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Originally created by @H-M-H on GitHub (Sep 1, 2021).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui/issues/874

Currently only colors are used to distinguish the selected pane from other panes. At least for me
it's sometimes rather hard to see at first glance which pane is selected. I imagine it's much worse
for color blind people. That's why I propose to additionally make the borders of selected panes
wider.

On the left are the currently used borders and to the right some wider unicode characters that could
be used for highlighting.

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Originally created by @H-M-H on GitHub (Sep 1, 2021). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/Rigellute/spotify-tui/issues/874 Currently only colors are used to distinguish the selected pane from other panes. At least for me it's sometimes rather hard to see at first glance which pane is selected. I imagine it's much worse for color blind people. That's why I propose to additionally make the borders of selected panes wider. On the left are the currently used borders and to the right some wider unicode characters that could be used for highlighting. ``` ┌─┐╔═╗┏━┓ │ │║ ║┃ ┃ └─┘╚═╝┗━┛ ```

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@sputnick1124 commented on GitHub (Sep 28, 2021):

I don't know if we have control over the border characters, but rather rely on tui-rs for pane selection highlighting.

EDIT: I looked a bit more and tui-rs does give us the knobs to turn to change the Border Type. I think this is doable and would make a nice accessibility improvement.

@sputnick1124 commented on GitHub (Sep 28, 2021): I don't know if we have control over the border characters, but rather rely on [tui-rs](https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs) for pane selection highlighting. EDIT: I looked a bit more and tui-rs does give us the knobs to turn to change the Border Type. I think this is doable and would make a nice accessibility improvement.