MEGA THREAD: Design still subject to change, UI is pretty okay though

[DHowett-MSFT]

I am creating this so I can pin it & to help keep track of several related issues/work-items.

Things we know:

• The grab handles are bright white/accent color/dark black
• The grab handles are too narrow / the borders are too thick / why can't I use the area outside the window frame to resize?
• Add a UI to indicate a pane is focused. #994 Split panes need an indicator to show which is focused
• Scenario: Add support for panes  #1000 Literally anything having to do with panes
• Click/Right click icon should display Minimize/Maximize/Close menu
• When you click Cascade Windows , Show windows stacked etc is completely ignored by Terminal
• [Conpty] Add support for mouse input #376, [Terminal] VT Mouse Support #545 Commandline applications can't receive mouse input
• White border when Terminal is dark while Windows is in Light theme #4980 system theme light = light borders, even if terminal theme dark
• The title bar isn't acrylic, but now since architectural changes could be!

Things related to tabs:

• Epic: Fix remaining issues with non-client drawing #1625 Has another giant bucket of work that's more specific to the non-client area (where the tabs are)
• The area above the tabs isn't draggable
• Can't pop/drag out tabs
• Can't reorder tabs
• More complete tab sizing configurations #597 Without using tabs don't shrink/expand like browser tabs / I want to set a min width for my tabs / I want a fixed width for my tabs / I want tabs to expand to split the available space / any other possible tab sizing]
• Tab bar doesn't grow when you resize the window, it only shrinks #3300 Tab bar doesn't grow when you resize the window, it only shrinks (Regressed in v0.6)

Things that people want, but we won't be able to fix:

• Add setting to control Acrylic "Blur" in addition to opacity  #1753 Can only set "Opacity" of acrylic, not "Blur" / Can't have a non-acrylic transparency

Things fixed in v0.6:

• NonClientIslandWindow -- titlebar doubleclick no longer minmaxes #2513 Double click to non-client area should maximize the Window.
• The default 'active' tab contrast is very low #771 The default 'active' tab contrast is very low (especially light mode)
• The tabs don't look as good as you'd like UI Suggestion: Visually link tab to console view #702
  
• Tabs in title bar are cut off when scrolling the tabs + tabs not scrolling automatically #857 When the window is smaller than the sum of the width of the tabs, the tabs are cut off, without indication to scroll

Things fixed in v0.5:

• Make Alt+F4 work and warn the user about terminating more than one tab #1589 Alt+F4 doesn't close the Window (PR#2526)

Things fixed in v0.3:

• The non-client area looks wrong; PR Apply a GDI region to the top level Island window to allow dragging with a single Xaml Island #929, Issue We need to draw the whole non-client area ourselves #872
  

• The plus button is too big, too small, too wide, too narrow (fixed in Style the button and tab view background to match the titlebar #1934)
  

• Use tab-bar/title bar for dragging window around #564 draggable area in title bar (PR Enable dragging with the entire titlebar #1948)

• When maximized on displays with a different DPI, the edges of the window are cut off. (Fixed by Fix wrong maximized window offset on non primary monitors #1921)

• Feature request: suppress VT title and prefer profile name (or something else) #608 the text of my tabs is too long

• I'm using the dark theme but am still seeing a white border and header are still white. (Might be fixed by Apply a GDI region to the top level Island window to allow dragging with a single Xaml Island #929)
  

• (caused by Apply a GDI region to the top level Island window to allow dragging with a single Xaml Island #929, tracked in Epic: Fix remaining issues with non-client drawing #1625 Add a setting to enable the using the Accent Color for the titlebar #1963) The titlebar does not have my accent color in it
  

• Resizing the window causes the UI to disapper/reappear.
  

[mdtauk]

The plus glyph will probably shrink, I commented on the TabControl issue, and it seems they will push the change, to match the smaller glyph used by UWP Edge.

[Jaykul]

Yeah, I think we can all agree "make the tabs like Edge Chrome" is nice, but "make the tabs like the promo video" is even better ... 😣

[mdtauk]

I think the UWP Edge had nicer tabs than Edge Chrome. 🤔

[19lmyers]

Personally I wish they'd make Edge Chrome's tabs like UWP Edge, but nobody asked me...

[Jaykul]

Yeah, yeah, but ... either of them is waaaay ahead of Terminal 🤡
Edgium has almost 20 pixels above the tabs that are ugly ... but ... draggable!
And with both of them, you can at least tell which tab is active 🙄

[3dWrecker]

There is no PRACTICAL use for acrylic when coding. However transparency is very useful. It means I can view code beneath the Terminal window like this:

Please add an adjustment for the BLUR factor that acrylic uses. I can't read blurred out text.

Also if the Terminal did not go black when inactive like this:

it would be really useful to be able to have a pin button which pinned the terminal above all other windows. This would enable seamless switching between the terminal and whatever code editor you are using (especially if you can read code beneath the Terminal window.)
I suggest that the acrylic theme should stay active instead of "going black" if an "Always on top" feature is added and enabled.

What it could look like:

The pin icon, to pin the Terminal above all windows.
@nacorv,

I would like to know if "Always on top" is a feature that would be considered.

[3dWrecker]

Selecting and dragging anywhere within the tab area currently does not move the window. This makes it necessary to move the mouse to the right of the tab area, which leaves a very small amount of titlebar which can be used to move the window. Please change this. No rush!

[Plasma]

1. Turning on acrylic in Powershell makes the purple parameters like -abc appear near invisible.