The existing project colour feature only changes the colour of the small project icon. This is difficult to notice—particularly for users with colour-vision deficiencies—and does not make sessions within a long sidebar meaningfully easier to identify.
Please add an option in the ChatGPT desktop app to apply a subtle pastel background colour to the entire project row and, optionally, its associated session rows.
Ideally:
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The selected colour would fill the full width/height of the project row.
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Sessions within that project could inherit a lighter tint of the same colour.
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Colours would remain clearly visible in both light and dark themes.
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The existing icon-only colouring could remain available for users who prefer it.
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Text contrast would be adjusted automatically for accessibility.
In the above example, the pink project icon beside “Template.Api” is too small and subtle for me to identify (4k screen + colour-vision defficient). A tinted row background would create a much stronger visual grouping as the number of projects and sessions grows.
This is distinct from the previously implemented project-colour request: that implementation colours only the icon, not the project or session background.