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Peacock - Choose What to Color

John Papa on February 24, 2019

Last Week I released Peacock, which solves a problem I had: quickly and visually differentiating between VS Code instances. Yeah, I usually have ma...

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Kelli Blalock • Feb 24 '19

Thanks for making this extension! I used to open different projects in different editors to differentiate between them, but now I only like using VS Code and this makes it so much easier to tell which project is which.

Also, if anyone has trouble installing it, it wouldn't install for me until I updated VS Code to the latest version and then it installed with no problem.

John Papa • Feb 24 '19

You’re welcome. Thanks for trying it.

You make a great point about the version. I could lower the requirement if it helps. But maybe it should stay up since it encourages updates. The generator from the code team sets that and I didn’t take notice.

Wesley Handy • Mar 14 '19

This extension has made my day to day development so much better. I didn't know what I was missing. Due to our stack at work, I commonly have between 5 and 6 workspaces open and even with multiple monitors and stacking instances, it's burdensome to go between them at times. Peacock, wow!, thanks for this extension!

Ben Sinclair • Feb 27 '19

Are you supposed to be able to have two VSCode workspaces open in different windows at the same time?

I though you were, and that was what this extension solved, but I don't remember now. Anyway, after installing, I definitely can't have two open side-by-side. Opening a second one closes the first.

Is that something your extension did or just a the way VSCode behaves?

John Papa • Feb 27 '19

Hi. Yes vs code let’s you open several instances of itself.

Peacock just allow a you to color each one differently.

Juha-Matti Santala • Feb 24 '19

Thank you so much John for building this! I've always done it manually but Peacock makes it so much fun and I don't have to worry about spending time on it anymore.