Adding a new custom profile with the new UI-Button #7105

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opened 2026-01-31 00:55:12 +00:00 by claunia · 4 comments
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Originally created by @avdain on GitHub (Mar 23, 2020).

Description of the new feature/enhancement

This function is intended to help computer scientists/developers to solve problems faster by adding a button to the context menu. The button has a function that consists in creating custom profiles.

  • This function enables computer scientists / developers to solve problems faster and easier.

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@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Mar 23, 2020):

What would that button do all by itself? It would need to display some sort of UI for the user to interact with to create the profile, right? The better solution here would just be to have a whole settings UI, which we're tracking over in #1564.

/dup #1564

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Mar 23, 2020): What would that button do all by itself? It would need to display some sort of UI for the user to interact with to create the profile, right? The better solution here would just be to have a whole settings UI, which we're tracking over in #1564. /dup #1564
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@ghost commented on GitHub (Mar 23, 2020):

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!

@ghost commented on GitHub (Mar 23, 2020): Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!
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@avdain commented on GitHub (Mar 23, 2020):

That's also a good idea! 😄👍

@avdain commented on GitHub (Mar 23, 2020): That's also a **good idea**! 😄👍
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@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Mar 23, 2020):

Sure, but we'd still fundamentally need a settings UI in the first place to be able to support this ask at all. Without that UI, this button doesn't really make sense.

Plus, we'd have to consider if the frequency in which users create new profiles is high enough to justify cluttering that flyout with another button. We've been pretty reluctant to add buttons to that flyout in general. It's already easy enough for the Windows context menu to get easily cluttered, making each and every option in it so we're trying to avoid that mistake.

My hypothesis would be that creating profiles is something that would happen far less frequently than opening that dialog for opening a new tab, and adding that additional menu item would be less useful than just having the button in the settings UI.

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Mar 23, 2020): Sure, but we'd still fundamentally need a settings UI in the first place to be able to support this ask at all. Without that UI, this button doesn't really make sense. Plus, we'd have to consider if the frequency in which users create new profiles is high enough to justify cluttering that flyout with another button. We've been pretty reluctant to add buttons to that flyout in general. It's already easy enough for the Windows context menu to get easily cluttered, making each and every option in it so we're trying to avoid that mistake. My hypothesis would be that creating profiles is something that would happen far less frequently than opening that dialog for opening a new tab, and adding that additional menu item would be less useful than just having the button in the settings UI.
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Reference: starred/terminal#7105