Repository: terminal
Issue: Epic: Default-by-default fall-out, long-term plans, and community feedback
Labels: Product-Terminal,Issue-Scenario,Area-DefApp

> _"it’s much easier to accept mediocrity than to pursue adequacy"_

## NSAT Blockers
- Terminal launches quickly
	- [ ] #5907
- Terminal fits into my existing workflows
	- [x] #9458
		- Hardcore console users -- our bread & butter -- carry around customized console app shortcuts that Terminal ignores today.
		- [x] #1504
		- [ ] #4768
		- [ ] #1793
		- [ ] #14372
	- [ ] #2558
	- [ ] #10276
	    - This isn't "fixed", it's just blocked on the COM team
- Terminal "blends in" and gets out of the way
	- [ ] #8983
    - [x] People may be unhappy about Terminal's default "stay open after a process fails" behavior. That behavior may cause enterprise management scripts to leave useless Terminal windows laying around.
      - https://stackoverflow.com/a/72872289/1481137
      - MSFT:38270604
      - #13325
      - https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/11179#issuecomment-916079467

## Windowing Completion
- [x] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/2988#issuecomment-1044501169
  - "Things open in the wrong z-order relative to the terminal"
- [x] #12154
  - `/max` fixed in #14222
- [ ] #5094
	- Iffy on whether this one is important. Console apps can resize themselves. This is more difficult in a multi-tenant environment.
- [ ] People do weird things with `GetConsoleWindow`
  - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72512085/inconsistent-behavior-when-removing-minimize-button-from-windows-terminal
  - [x] #13248 
  - [ ] Internal thread about SW_HIDE'ing (NOT minimizing) the Terminal window
  - [ ] #13525 
- [ ] Individual console sessions were easily identifiable on the taskbar. All Terminal sessions show up as just "Terminal" windows
  - Refer to MSFT:41251452
  - See also https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/4768#issuecomment-1527800607 has the most comprehensive summary of the problem space
  - > now in my taskbar git cmd doesn't show as open, so I instead have to fish through a bunch of terminal windows to find which one is git.
  - [x] #6556
  - [ ] #687
  - [ ] #8216
  - [x] Also #1504
  - [ ] Also #4768

## Settings Parity

Not "the settings UI has parity with the settings JSON", but "the Terminal settings UI has parity with the Console propsheet"

- [x] #9075

## Accessibility
- [ ] #7118
- [x] #9610

## Will this come back to bite us later?
- [ ] #13006 "am I running in terminal?" - defterm launches don't set `WT_SESSION`
  - mentioned in https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/5094#issuecomment-1086842766
  - > However, when WT is set as the default terminal, AllocConsole opens a new instance of WT [which doesn't set `WT_SESSION`]
- [ ] Soft Landing/SCOOBE
- [ ] #10680
	- Terminal doesn't support WIP, but conhost does (private APIs)
- [ ] #153
	- conhost and Terminal differ in their approach here; this may cause compatibility issues for CJK users
- [ ] #8037
	- "grid lines" are also used primarily by CJK applications
	- We have little to no visibility into how we're used in those languages.
- [ ] #6056

### Conpty process weirdness

- [ ] #11823
- [x] #14416 
- [ ] TODO: find more of these, there's many
- [ ] that one vscode thread niksa tried to solve years ago

## Running programs as admin still launches conhost

No terminal application can register as the handler for elevated command line sessions. This requires platform support from COM team.

- [ ] Publicly "tracked" in #10276
- [ ] Internally at MSFT:39500755

## Surf line?
- [x] #1256
   - Each Terminal instance consumes more memory than an equivalent conhost; we can save memory and start-up time (NSAT blocker) by attaching all tabs to the same window while educating users about tabbing. 
	   - We can only do that if they're going to be able to tear them out afterwards.

## Works today in conhost, but may be OK missing for v1
- [x] #11595
- [x] #9583
- [x] #3561
- [x] #6556
- [ ] #1868
	- Apps can set their icons on the console _window_, but they can't on the tab. Probably OK.
- [x] #705
- [x] #12464
	- _Is this a Windowing bug?_
	
	
	
## Works today in conhost, but may be OK rejecting
- [x] #9622