VS Code issue: microsoft/vscode#147013

The goal with decorations was to make them as flexible as possible which I think we accomplished by using a DOM element. Unfortunately I think to really get the full potential of decorations we need some renderer integration as well in order to change the background color of a cell, otherwise we would only ever be able to overlay a transparent color on top which ends up washing out colors and making it impossible to align with the editor in VS Code for example.

Provided it's simple we could also support changing the foreground color, this isn't mandatory for what we need anything because of the minimum contrast ratio setting.

Something else to think about is whether to support the alpha channel in the new API which would blend with the original background color.

Proposal:

export interface IDecoration extends IDisposableWithEvent {
    // To be able to dynamically change the colors without recreating the decoration
    options: Pick<IDecorationOptions, 'overviewRulerOptions' | 'backgroundColor' | 'foregroundColor'>;
}

export interface IDecorationOptions {
    /**
     * The background color of the cell(s).
     */
    backgroundColor?: string;
    
    /**
     * The foreground color of the cell(s).
     */
    foregroundColor?: string;
}