microsoft/Terminal

Support random color scheme, pseudocode [ scheme = rand(settings.schemes) ]

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#9,422 opened on Mar 9, 2021

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Description

Description of the new feature/enhancement

There is a site https://windowsterminalthemes.dev/, it shares many awesome color themes. I choose some of them, pasted in settings.schemes, then I may change the colorScheme daily depends on my feeling.

The Oh-My-Zsh has a similar feature, the random theme, a theme will be chosen randomly every time a new shell is opened.

Wish Windows Terminal could have something like that.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

Introduce a keyword like random, if the colorScheme field is set to random, then every time a new tag or window is opened, randomly choose a color schema from settings.schemes .

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Implement a mechanism to recognize a special 'random' value for the colorScheme setting and select a random scheme from the list of defined schemes each time a new tab is opened.
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cpp
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desktop
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