SAPGUI - 'Signature Design', being in different systems, QA, Tst, Prod

With "Enjoy", I could set my Dev, QA, Tst & Prod to different colors so I can quickly tell what system I am in without looking in lower right corner.
I saw a note saying with Signature Design UI, you can't change the color scheme.
Is this still true ? Or having multiple systems up and running, has anybody found a "quick" way to id what system you are in without looking in lower right ?
With working in QA and Prod all day long, it was nice with Enjoy having each it's own color scheme knowning what I was in when. If Signature doesn't have this flexibility, I might have to go back to Enjoy.
Thanks for any input on this.
David

Yes, signature design does NOT support different colors per system.
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