microsoft/Terminal

Display current tab's icon as a badge on the taskbar icon

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#1,871 opened on Jul 8, 2019

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Description

I can assign individual icons for each profile, and each tab I open for said profile has that profile's icon on the tab. HOWEVER, the taskbar "button" has the primary app icon on it, which isn't as helpful as having the currently active tab's icon instead. The correct icon provides a visual cue on which taskbar button is "my" button I'm looking for.

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Investigate Windows taskbar icon badge APIs (e.g., ITaskbarList3::SetOverlayIcon) and how to determine the active tab's icon from the terminal's tab management code. See existing implementations in the codebase for tab icon handling.
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cpp
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desktop
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3
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3-5 days
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C++Windows API
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