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Anthony ERIBON

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Prism Terminal

With the original Windows Terminal behaviour, tab headers were not consistently identifiable by their own colours. Detaching a tab into another window, then joining it back, did not preserve the presentation as expected.

Prism makes a tab’s colour and selection identity consistent across Windows-native terminal windows—even when a tab is detached, moved or joined back.

Actual Prism tab bar: cream Planning is selected with diagonal blue stripes; Review remains blue and Tests remains red.
Actual Prism: one selected tab and two inactive tabs, each with its own colour. Detail view; harmless demo content. Full size
Conceptual tab identities: Shell, Build and Data share a window; Build moves into a separate window; then Build rejoins the group with the same colour and contrasting diagonal selection pattern. This is an abstract state diagram, not a screenshot.
A tab keeps its presentation when its window changes. Stripes distinguish selection without erasing the tab’s colour. Full size