UI feature -- change color of menu bar to diferentiate between servers

hi, love the scale. works great.

so… one thing I have trouble with, when I have multiple scale servers, is diferentiating between them - yes it says in the bottom corner, but I always keep triple checking because it is not obvious to me, which machine I am in, and when migrating sensitive data, it is quite important not to get this wrong.

so, I tried changing themes, but I really dislike all other themes, than the one I prefer (midnight) which looks slick and great. So changing theemes is not an option.

But I have come up with a super simple way to fix this. Please provide us with a choice (either a set choice of colors , or better yet, a color picker) – so that we can PICK the color of our menubar (in my case it is very nice blue color, but, I would want to set it to yellow on one machine, and keep it to blue on another).

this - simple way - makes the machines color coded, so its very very easy to identify which machine we are interacting with, and make any confusion non existant. Its simple elegant, slick, and all it does is changes the color of the menubar - super identifiable element in the gui, as it is the top wide element.

so, it should be fairly easy to implement, I hope you like my suggestion, and will do something about it - implement it - to make truenas scale even better, and easier to manage when multiple servers are using it

thanks

Thank you for the suggestion. A complementary idea that could work for you:

Use a Custom, Arbitrary text widget. It is available in full, half, or 1/4 sizes.

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