microsoft / microsoft/terminal
ms-appx: profile icons don't show in taskbar jump list when installed in portable mode
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Description
### Windows Terminal version
1.22.250204002
### Windows build number
10.0.19045.0
### Other Software
_No response_
### Steps to reproduce
Install in portable mode, pin to task bar, right-click.
(Note: I copied my settings .json files from an older non-portable install, so the existing profiles used ms-appx URLs.)
### Expected Behavior
Jump list should show all profile icons, including built-in ms-appx: ones.
### Actual Behavior
Only profile icons that are .exe file paths or https URLs work: ms-appx: URLs or paths/file: URLS for ico/png images do not.
To get profile icons working again, I ended up using https links to e.g. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/terminal/refs/heads/main/src/cascadia/CascadiaPackage/ProfileIcons/%7B0caa0dad-35be-5f56-a8ff-afceeeaa6101%7D.scale-200.png in place of the corresponding ms-appx URL. (This is probably not a great idea but it works as a workaround.)
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reproducing the portable-mode installation, pinning Windows Terminal, and opening the taskbar jump list with profiles using ms-appx: icons. Trace the jump-list profile icon handling and compare it with the working .exe and https cases; done means built-in ms-appx: profile icons appear alongside the other profile icons.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100