microsoft / microsoft/terminal
Polish Commandline Help MessageBox to be at least like, but at best better than, `msiexec /?`
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Area-UserInterface
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Issue-Task
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- Dominant language
- C++
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Description
Follow-up task from #4023
actual
expected
(ideally with monospace text too)
Obviously, better than this would be even more ideal. It's probably not that simple to create a XAML island just for the sake of displaying this text. However, that would be potentially even more modern UI.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading follow-up issue #4023 and reproducing the current command-line help MessageBox shown in the issue. Locate the existing help-message entry point and compare its output with msiexec /?; done means the message is at least as informative and readable, ideally using monospace text or the proposed modern UI.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- cli, desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100