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Lock-Symbol for read-only panes #16554

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boop5 opened this issue Jan 12, 2024 · 2 comments
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Lock-Symbol for read-only panes #16554

boop5 opened this issue Jan 12, 2024 · 2 comments
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Area-User Interface Issues pertaining to the user interface of the Console or Terminal Issue-Task It's a feature request, but it doesn't really need a major design. Product-Terminal The new Windows Terminal.
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boop5 commented Jan 12, 2024

Description of the new feature/enhancement

Find a way to highlight the fact, that a pane is in read-only mode

Why though?

I use a 3 pane setup when I'm developing a web app.

  1. just a console, git and stuff
  2. watch-build backend
  3. watch-build frontend

I want to be 2) and 3) in read-only mode most of the time to avoid typing into the pane when it accidentally gets focus. I dont know why but that happens quite often to me. But sometimes I want to cancel the process and then I never know if the pane is in read-only mode. That's kinda annoying

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Some ideas:

  • show a lock icon in the upper right corner of the pane for example
  • change the background color of the pane
  • change the frame color of the pane

A lock symbol in the tab is not good enough because it doesn't imply which pane is / which panes are locked if you have more than one pane.
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Great idea! We had a thought - if panes could each have their own titlebar, and that titlebar had the lock always visible, would that be sufficient here?

#4717 / #4998 has some ideas, and there was a very rough mockup in #7371
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boop5 commented Jan 17, 2024

Sure. That would work great. Love that idea 👍 I see a lot of potential

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