Official Ubuntu theme for theme marketplace

[sirredbeard]

This is a feature request for an official Ubuntu theme in the Windows Terminal theme gallery, which is currently priority 2 on the roadmap for Windows Terminal 2.0.

We would like to engage with our Design Team at Canonical to develop a delightful theme for users using all available and planned theme features to be available when the theme gallery launches.

A concept:

[zadjii-msft]

@sirredbeard have you been in contact with @cinnamon-msft? I'm pretty sure the whole reason we're jumping on the proto-extensions thing (#7632) is so that Canonical can ship customizations for the Ubuntu distros that we auto detect.

[cinnamon-msft]

Hey @sirredbeard, we're shipping proto-extensions in our next release, which will let Ubuntu ship their own Terminal theme inside the Ubuntu package. Does this work as a solution for you? We have a loose timeline for the theme marketplace.

[DHowett]

@sirredbeard we’d love your feedback on fragment extensions (#7584).

[ghost]

Will these extensions work on imported Ubuntu profiles?

[zadjii-msft]

Yep! Something like

{
    "profiles": [
        {
			// This is the GUID for Ubuntu-18.04
            "updates" : "{c6eaf9f4-32a7-5fdc-b5cf-066e8a4b1e40}",

            "background" : "#2C001E",
            "useAcrylic" : true,
            "acrylicOpacity" : 0.9,
            "icon" : "C:\\path\\to\\ubuntu-icon.png",
            "padding" : "4",
            "cursorColor" : "#FFaf00",
            "fontFace" : "Ubuntu Mono",
            "fontSize" : 14,
            "cursorShape" : "emptyBox"
        }
    ]
}

Would modify the auto-generated "Ubuntu-18.04" profile, so Canonical can change the appearance of distros that we auto-detect.

[sirredbeard]

Does this work as a solution for you?

Yes, it does. I will get with Patrick on WSL to talk about ways we could integrate it into our Store app.

I will also highlight this for the Multipass team.

[sirredbeard]

Being able to declare an extension and bundle the assets in the UWP app is going to be super helpful for us through the Store. Very excited about this.

[zadjii-msft]

Okay thanks for confirming! I'm gonna call this a dupe of proto-extensions / "settings fragments" for now, I'd go follow those issues/PRs for updates.

/dup #1690
/dup #7632

Thanks!

[ghost]

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!

[sirredbeard]

That is fine. This was intended to just be a placeholder for the theme marketplace feature which was suggested we file but I will defer to your team.