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Set tab color in command line #8075

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alisd23 opened this issue Oct 28, 2020 · 4 comments · Fixed by #8102
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Set tab color in command line #8075

alisd23 opened this issue Oct 28, 2020 · 4 comments · Fixed by #8102
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Area-Commandline wt.exe's commandline arguments good first issue This is a fix that might be easier for someone to do as a first contribution Help Wanted We encourage anyone to jump in on these. Issue-Task It's a feature request, but it doesn't really need a major design. Product-Terminal The new Windows Terminal. Resolution-Fix-Committed Fix is checked in, but it might be 3-4 weeks until a release.
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alisd23 commented Oct 28, 2020

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When opening tabs/panes with the wt command, It would be great to be able to set the color of a tab, in a similar way as we can currently set the title with wt --title something.

I use the wt to command to open my terminal "workspace", and I use colours to easily distinguish the different tabs, so allowing this to be set by command line instead of manually each time the tabs are opened would be even nicer.

This could be as simple as something like the following, allow a hex value to be set:

wt --color "#111111" ; new-tab --color "#FF0000"
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zadjii-msft commented Oct 28, 2020 •
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This isn't a bad idea. We've already got tabColor in the profile, might as well be able to override that from the commandline. We've already got the precedent with --title for tabTitle. Thanks for the request!

I'd probably make this --tabColor, for parity with the setting in the profile, and I probably wouldn't give it a short version. I think this should probably be an acceptable arg for split-pane, and just update the NewTerminalArgs to also accept the optional color.

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@alisd23 - do you plan to implement this? If not I can work on this - sounds quite useful and straightforward.

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alisd23 commented Oct 28, 2020

@alisd23 - do you plan to implement this? If not I can work on this - sounds quite useful and straightforward.

Hey, I don't really have enough time at the moment so I won't be able to any time soon, so please go ahead - that'd be great!

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@zadjii-msft - I added an optional tab color to the NewTerminalArgs, and used it to override terminal settings.... and it was a very bad decision on my side 😆. I mean everything worked but then during the testing I noticed that the color disappears after splitting the pane, or reloading the settings. This was a very hard way (aka at least an hour of my life) to learn that there is a runtime tab color 😄. So I switched to setting it.

@zadjii-msft - Can you explain why we would want to use it for split-pane? I can understand why we might want it for duplicate tab though.

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Add support for setting tabColor on the command line (#8102)
fd37e1d 
* Add a tabColor parameter to the `new-tab` and `split-panes` command
* Add --tabColor to the command line, to allow bootstrapping with tabs
  of different colors

Add another field to NewTerminalArgs. Use this field to set
StartingTabColor in Terminal. This color gets overridden by the color
defined by the profile / VT, however can be overridden with the color
picker.

Since the color is the property of the Terminal, when defined for the
tab this color is associated only with the first pane/terminal of the
tab. Additional panes will not inherit this color (to prevent advanced
resolution, where we need to resolve between the inherited color and the
one specified for the pane).

## Validation Steps Performed
* UT for parameters parsing
* Running system with several tabs of different colors.
* Adding custom actions with colors
* Performing operations like split pane, duplicate and so on

Closes #8075
mpela81 pushed a commit to mpela81/terminal that referenced this issue Nov 22, 2020
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Add support for setting tabColor on the command line (microsoft#8102)
1fb121d 
* Add a tabColor parameter to the `new-tab` and `split-panes` command
* Add --tabColor to the command line, to allow bootstrapping with tabs
  of different colors

Add another field to NewTerminalArgs. Use this field to set
StartingTabColor in Terminal. This color gets overridden by the color
defined by the profile / VT, however can be overridden with the color
picker.

Since the color is the property of the Terminal, when defined for the
tab this color is associated only with the first pane/terminal of the
tab. Additional panes will not inherit this color (to prevent advanced
resolution, where we need to resolve between the inherited color and the
one specified for the pane).

## Validation Steps Performed
* UT for parameters parsing
* Running system with several tabs of different colors.
* Adding custom actions with colors
* Performing operations like split pane, duplicate and so on

Closes microsoft#8075
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