microsoft/Terminal

Polish Commandline Help MessageBox to be at least like, but at best better than, `msiexec /?`

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#4,134 opened on Jan 7, 2020

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Description

Follow-up task from #4023

actual

image

expected

image (ideally with monospace text too)

Obviously, better than this would be even more ideal. It's probably not that simple to create a XAML island just for the sake of displaying this text. However, that would be potentially even more modern UI.

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Research direction
Investigate the current help message box implementation in the terminal codebase. Explore using XAML islands to display a formatted, monospace help message similar to msiexec /?. Reference the expected UI screenshot and consider accessibility and modernity.
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
2
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
1-3 hours
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Active
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Mostly clear
Prerequisites
C++
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75