Sidebar for Profiles

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Description of the new feature/enhancement

I currently have about 30 profiles that I need again and again to establish connections to servers. Selecting from the drop-down list becomes very confusing over time, which is why I would find a sidebar very practical.
Similar to other multi-terminal programmes, you can then establish a new connection from the sidebar by double-clicking on the profile.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

[237dmitry]

Selecting from the drop-down list becomes very confusing over time, which is why I would find a sidebar very practical.

I don't mind the panel if it's not always visible. Do you launch every profile manually every time? Launch all at once from powershell tab.

# Check the path to settings.json. This one is for WT Preview
 
$json = "$env:LocalAppData\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsTerminalPreview_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\settings.json"

(Get-Content $json | ConvertFrom-Json).profiles.list |
    Where-Object   { (-not $_.hidden) -and ($_.guid -ne $env:WT_PROFILE_ID) } |
    Foreach-Object { wt --window 0 new-tab --profile $_.name }

[zadjii-msft]

Interesting idea. There's a couple items on the backlog that might be a bit easier to implement

• Allow dropdown menu customization in profiles.json #1571 (customize the dropdown to be easier to navigate)
• Open a new pane by prompting the user for which profile to use #3586 (Yea, the title says "pane", but a tab just starts with a single pane 😉)

or alternatively, using the command palette to search for which profile to open

Would any of that work for you/?

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[MXMLN-sec]

Selecting from the drop-down list becomes very confusing over time, which is why I would find a sidebar very practical.

I don't mind the panel if it's not always visible. Do you launch every profile manually every time? Launch all at once from powershell tab.

# Check the path to settings.json. This one is for WT Preview

 

$json = "$env:LocalAppData\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsTerminalPreview_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\settings.json"



(Get-Content $json | ConvertFrom-Json).profiles.list |

    Where-Object   { (-not $_.hidden) -and ($_.guid -ne $env:WT_PROFILE_ID) } |

    Foreach-Object { wt --window 0 new-tab --profile $_.name }

Neat idea. But I need to select the server I need to connect to depending on the task I need to perform. So unfortunately I can't automate this. But probably helpful for the future!

[MXMLN-sec]

Interesting idea. There's a couple items on the backlog that might be a bit easier to implement

• Allow dropdown menu customization in profiles.json #1571 (customize the dropdown to be easier to navigate)

• Open a new pane by prompting the user for which profile to use #3586 (Yea, the title says "pane", but a tab just starts with a single pane 😉)

or alternatively, using the command palette to search for which profile to open

Would any of that work for you/?

Nice idea with the drop down customisation! I will try it.

The search will mit not always work for me since I don't have all the server names right in the top of my head. Which brings me to another idea: my suggested sidebar could be extended with folders to organise entries for example powershell scripts, customer a, customer b, and so on.

[zadjii-msft]

The search will mit not always work for me since I don't have all the server names right in the top of my head. Which brings me to another idea: my suggested sidebar could be extended with folders to organise entries for example powershell scripts, customer a, customer b, and so on

You can actually also customize the entries in the Command Palette however you'd like! This doc has a trivial example with combining entries under a "Change font size..." entry, but you could easily add newTab actions all nested under each customer if you wanted

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This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has been marked as requiring author feedback but has not had any activity for 4 days. It will be closed if no further activity occurs within 3 days of this comment.