Minimap search decorations are hard to see

[miguelsolorio]

Testing #76030

I get that you're using the same color as the highlighted text in the editor, but this is hard to see even if you're looking for it. I wonder if it's worth exploring to try a different color in our default themes?

[usernamehw]

Minimap appears to be too small for decorations. Maybe you can consider making an option to scale it for the next iteration? #21773

[usernamehw]

Highlighting the entire line could also help #21404 (comment)

[stiegi]

No, it should be just like in Sublime or Atom: a bright, white rectangle around the result. It should also be there after doubleclicking something, and NOT the complete line, because this feature is supposed to help finding the horizontal position, too.

[usernamehw]

Line highlighting could be half/more than half transparent so that it would be easy to find the line and the precise horizontal location (like diff):

[RMacfarlane]

I like the idea of highlighting the whole line. Here’s what that looks like in a prototype:

I defined a new theme color, minimap.findMatchHighlight, which by default is the same as the overview ruler but opaque. As @usernamehw suggested, I added a line highlight that’s half transparent.

I’ll check this in for now, still happy to take more feedback and experiment more over the iteration.

[RMacfarlane]

Closing this since I’m happy with the decorations now in insiders and haven’t had more feedback. Thanks all!