microsoft/Terminal

Feature Request: CornerRadius on Cursor Shape

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#1,446 opened on Jun 22, 2019

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Description

Summary of the new feature/enhancement

When setting the cursor shape to filledBox or vintage, it would be nice if you could round the corners of that shape.

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If the cursor is drawn from a shape, then you could add a setting for cursorCornerRadius: "2, 2, 2, 2" and apply that to the shape. If however the cursor image is drawn from a font in the glyph - then perhaps CascadiaCode could have rounded boxes for the cursors.

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Research direction
Investigate the cursor rendering code in the Terminal to determine how the cursor shapes are drawn, and explore adding a configurable corner radius property.
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
desktop
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Feature
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3
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Half day
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Stale
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Clear
Prerequisites
C++Windows Terminal rendering
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30