macOS Native Menu icon color

[RobinsonWM]

I'm using macOS NativeMenu, and I'd like to have monochromatic icons on some of the menu items. The text color in the NativeMenu doesn't seem to match my Avalonia ThemeVariant, and I don't see a good way to get visibility into the text color. Is it possible to make my monochromatic NativeMenuItem icons match the text color?

For TrayIcon there is IsTemplateIcon that appears to address this exact use case, but I don't see a way to do the same with NativeMenuItem. Would that require a new to feature for Avalonia?

[maxkatz6]

MacOSProperties.IsTemplateIcon would make sense to be extended on NativeMenuItem, yes.
Can you open a feature request?

[RobinsonWM]

Thanks for the feedback! I wrote #22274.

[Matubil]

Agreed. Extending MacOSProperties.IsTemplateIcon to NativeMenuItem would be the cleanest approach and would keep the API consistent with TrayIcon.

Something like:

<NativeMenuItem
    Header="Open"
    Icon="Assets/open.png"
    MacOSProperties.IsTemplateIcon="True" />

would make this much easier and would let macOS handle the icon tinting correctly for light/dark appearance instead of trying to manually match the menu text color.

I think a feature request for this would make sense.