microsoft / microsoft/terminal
Feature request: theme preview / install UI
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Description
You're probably already working on this, but it would be useful to have an issue to coordinate discussion.
@felixse's Fluent Terminal has a pretty lovely theme UI that gets it 90% right:
Some good things about it:
- Previews of everything, rather than just the theme name
- Users can click on the colors to edit (with a little photoshop-style editor)
- It can import
.itermcolorsdirectly, rather than asking users to runcolortool
One thing I'd add: the ability to just type in the name of the many well known color schemes, preview it, and have it installed. This saves having to download a color scheme, convert it, and put it in a directory and import it.
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
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Review the referenced Fluent Terminal UI and iTerm2 color schemes to define the preview, color editing, .itermcolors import, and named-scheme installation requirements; done would mean those theme workflows are available.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- design, desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100