microsoft / microsoft/terminal

Add a setting to manually set the Pane border width

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Description

Follow up from #994 and PR:#3060

In the aforementioned PR, we're hardcoding the border width to 2. This should really be configurable to any positive double.

Questions:

  • (Similar to the discussion in #3061) There's been discussion before about allowing custom theming, hypothetically powered by XAML. Would we want to wait for that discussion to be had before we do this?
    • If we do want to do this in XAML later, would enabling it in the json now negatively impact that future scenario?

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Research direction

Start by reviewing PR #3060 and the discussion in issues #994 and #3061, since this issue does not name implementation files or tests. Determine whether the setting belongs in JSON configuration or should wait for the proposed XAML theming work. Done means supporting any positive double value for the Pane border width with an agreed configuration path and validation.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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