Selected icon (e.g. GitHub copilot which is gray when not selected): [Screenshot 2025-05-12 at 18.54.18] You can only specify icon attribute for toolWindow in plugin.xml? Or is this done dynamically in ToolWindowFactory? Code example?

The “selected” icon is computed dynamically by changing some particular colors. This change has been introduced with the New UI. This works because IDE icons are gray-colored. Globally, some predefined gray-colors are replaced by white, and white is replaced by a gray color. The blue background col…

How to set selected icon for toolWindow (new UI)?

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yuriy.artamonov (Yuriy Artamonov) September 6, 2025, 5:30pm 4

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How to set selected icon for toolWindow (new UI)?

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