microsoft / microsoft/terminal
Option to create desktop shortcuts to profiles
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Description
Description of the new feature/enhancement
As a user, I'd like to be able to easily create desktop shortcuts that open a specific profile. This could be done e.g. via right clicking a profile in the profile dropdown and selecting an action "Create desktop shortcut".
For context, I use a Powershell Core profile to do software updates and a WSL shell to do some dev work and I currently cannot find a way to quickly run one of those; I always start the default Powershell profile and then manually open WSL and close Powershell which seems cumbersome.
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Research direction
The issue describes adding a “Create desktop shortcut” action for a profile in the profile dropdown, but names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by tracing how profiles are displayed and launched, then determine how a shortcut could preserve the selected profile. Done means a user can create a desktop shortcut that opens the intended profile.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp, powershell
- Domain
- cli, desktop, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100