microsoft / microsoft/terminal
Feature Request: Icon buttons to start relevant shell types
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Description
Feature request: Add icon buttons to the Windows Terminal title bar for the installed shell types (instead of the current drop down menu). Each button would start the relevant shell type. The buttons could have tool tip/mouse over for the shell type label/description.
The feature would enable one click start of the desired shell type. Currently, other than the default shell type, there's one click for the drop down, one more for the desired shell type from the list.
Then consider deprecating:
- the + button (start default shell).
- the drop down menu of the shell types
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Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by reviewing the existing Windows Terminal title-bar shell dropdown, then determine how installed shell types and their labels would be represented; the feature is done when each installed shell has a one-click icon button with a tooltip and the requested controls are addressed.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- cli, desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100