Suggestion: option to select interpreter when opening new console

[Miguel-LlamasLanza]

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Problem Description (Suggestion)

In order to open a kernel that uses a different python interpreter (e.g. a different conda environment), we need to go to preferences, change the python interpreter from the default one to another one. Then we can open a new python console with this interpreter for the kernel. We then need to switch back to the default interpreter in the preferences, so that new consoles will be opened with the default interpreter.

I suggest to have an option (in the menu that appears by clicking on the three lines of the top right of the console) to open a new console with a specific interpreter instead of the default, to avoid doing all that was mentioned before.

Ideally, it would be nice to have an option to choose between available conda environments, but I understand this might be quite difficult to ensure for each type of installation. Also ideally, the name of the console could tell to which environment it corresponds.

[pyZerrenner]

There seems to be a PR #20421 that implements a menu to start a console with a specific interpreter, but apparently it did not make its way to the main release yet.

(Also I just made my own similar suggestion #22022, not realising that this new issue was posted.)