Feature request: theme preview / install UI

[mikemaccana]

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 .itermcolors directly, rather than asking users to run colortool

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.

[5HT]

Somebody could prefer single Dialog window with settings per entire terminal rather that complex hierarchical menus. Even highly customizable xterm lacks fancy settings.

[mikemaccana]

@5HT Agreed, but there's only one layer of heirarchy here (with 6 options, 7 if you include about). This Issue is about theming through, and doesn't suggest anything about how Terminal Settings should be laid out.

[DHowett-MSFT]

We've got some pretty cool (we think) designs in mind for the settings UI that should assuage a lot of these concerns.

[mdtauk]

Whilst we are throwing around ideas for settings and theme previews.

The simpler the better, with a visual preview, and simple colour entry. the "Add new profile" button could either open a blank profile screen for choosing terminal, or offer the choice to import a profile as well as create a new one.

[DHowett-MSFT]

@mdtauk,
Thanks for the input! We’ll make sure it gets back to our designers.