Custom tab styles?

[lokesh-krishna]

is it possible to have custom tab styles or modify the existing ones? I'm presently using the fade option but without any actual face, instead using tab_fade to create margins between the tabs:

I was wondering if I could set the characters for the margins of these boxes so that I could make them rounded, something like what I'm doing with my vim status line:

[kovidgoyal]

Use the powerline style for the tab separator characters. There are extensive customization possibilities, see https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/ And in the next release (already in master) you will have the ability to write your own python code to render the tabs however you like.

[kovidgoyal]

You put your rounded characters into the tab title template to use them as separators.

[lokesh-krishna]

Thanks for pointing me towards that. Didn't think of using them for that. Is it possible to specify both background and foreground for the same character though? The man page example doesn't cover it and my attempts, by nesting the bg tags between the fg ones or nesting the fg ones between the bg ones aren't working.

EDIT: My bad, figured it out. Got what I was going for :D

[anuvyklack]

@lokesh-krishna How do you achieve this tabs appearance? Could you please share the config?

[lokesh-krishna]

tab_bar_edge    top
tab_bar_margin_width    10
tab_bar_margin_height    15 0
tab_bar_style    fade
tab_fade    0 
tab_title_template          "{fmt.bg._080808}{fmt.fg._303030}{fmt.fg.default}{fmt.bg._303030}{fmt.fg._c6c6c6} {title} {fmt.fg.default}{fmt.bg.default}{fmt.fg._303030}{fmt.fg.default}"
active_tab_title_template   "{fmt.bg._080808}{fmt.fg._80a0ff}{fmt.fg.default}{fmt.bg._80a0ff}{fmt.fg._080808} {title} {fmt.fg.default}{fmt.bg.default}{fmt.fg._80a0ff}{fmt.fg.default}"

[anuvyklack]

Thank you!

[kovidgoyal]

As far as I know nesting works fine, however if you are gonna get that complex, I suggest you just wait for the next release and implement tab drawing directly in python