Initialize Terminal Preview settings from Terminal settings #12907

huiyooumich · 2022-04-14T17:48:00Z

Windows Terminal Preview gets existing settings from Release build if
Preview settings are empty

This ensures that when settings are empty or not existent, we check if
we're currently in a preview build and if we are, we attempt to grab
settings from the Release build's setting path instead. We tested it
manually by changing settings in Release build and confirming that
changes migrated to Preview when settings are empty or not existent.
Additionally, we tested that settings.json of the running build changed.
We also ran existing TAEF testing locally and it passed.

In LoadAll() function in
src\cascadia\TerminalSettingsModel\CascadiaSettingsSerialization.cpp, we
first checked if the settings file us empty/exists via settingsString.
If it does not and we are in the Preview build, we try loading the
Release build's settings. We created modified versions of
CascadiaSettings::_settingsPath() and GetBaseSettingsPath() to get the
path for the Release build's settings. If the Release build settings do
exist and firstTimeSetup is true, we set it to settingsString so it can
be written to disk via WriteSettingsToDisk(). Note that currently we
hardcode the path of the Release build. This pull request was worked on
with @Dannihu01.

Validation Steps Performed Test1: Setting to firstTimeSetup is true

and loading settings.json from WT release when release exists -> Result:
settings.json AND GUI reflected WT release’s settings

Test2: Setting to firstTimeSetup is true and loading settings.json from
WT release when release doesn’t exist -> Result: settings.json AND GUI
reflected DEFAULT settings

Test3: (After running Test1) Setting to firstTimeSetup is false and
seeing if current settings.json matches WT release. (See if it doesn’t
change) -> Result: settings.json AND GUI reflected WT release’s settings

Closes #6855

Co-authored-by: Danniell Hu dannihu@umich.edu

Preview gets existing settings from Release build

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zadjii-msft

Okay, I think this is pretty straightforward. I'd ✅, but I'm a little curious about how this works unpackaged, esp with Preview branding, so I want a second opinion.

zadjii-msft · 2022-04-27T20:27:06Z

src/cascadia/TerminalSettingsModel/FileUtils.cpp

+            parentDirectoryForSettingsFile /= ReleaseSettingsFolder;
+
+            if (!IsPackaged())
+            {
+                parentDirectoryForSettingsFile /= UnpackagedSettingsFolderName;
+            }


I'm not sure this is right for unpackaged versions of the Terminal. I might want to tap in @DHowett for this bit, hes a bit more familiar with running the Terminal unpackaged.

Just looking at my own files, I've only got a %localAppData%\Microsoft\Windows Terminal.

Heck, I'm not sure this is ever relevant for Preview builds running unpackaged - I think they always just use %localAppData%\Microsoft\Windows Terminal anyways. I might be wrong here.

Yeah -- preview builds just use the same storage as stable when they run unpackaged, so there's no worry here :)

zadjii-msft · 2022-04-27T20:29:00Z

src/cascadia/TerminalSettingsModel/CascadiaSettingsSerialization.cpp

+    bool releaseSettingExists = false;
+    if (firstTimeSetup)
+    {
+#if defined(WT_BRANDING_PREVIEW)


Clever, simple, easy to parse what's happening. 👍

zadjii-msft · 2022-04-27T20:30:16Z

(sorry for the delays in reviewing 😅)

lhecker

I believe this change is fine. With unpackaged WT, I don't believe we make a distinction for the settings path between Preview and non-Preview.

zadjii-msft · 2022-05-16T18:18:34Z

So, for unpackaged "preview" branded builds, it'll just happen to work anyways? Like, this is never an issue, unpackaged terminal just always works this way. Even if you ran an unpackaged Preview build first, with no existing settings, it would never find the "release" settings, because it would look in the nonsense path %localAppData%\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\Microsoft\Windows Terminal for the settings file, definitely not find it, and continue on its merry way?

Okay I suppose I'm fine with this, but I might follow up with a cleanup PR with comments to that effect.

zadjii-msft

as noted. Thanks!

carlos-zamora · 2022-06-01T00:25:08Z

@msftbot make sure @DHowett signs off on this

ghost · 2022-06-01T00:25:13Z

Hello @carlos-zamora!

Because you've given me some instructions on how to help merge this pull request, I'll be modifying my merge approach. Here's how I understand your requirements for merging this pull request:

I'll only merge this pull request if it's approved by @DHowett

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zadjii-msft · 2022-06-10T17:51:48Z

Hey @DHowett review this so this can be in 1.15.

DHowett · 2022-06-10T17:56:45Z

src/cascadia/TerminalSettingsModel/FileUtils.cpp

+            parentDirectoryForSettingsFile /= ReleaseSettingsFolder;
+
+            if (!IsPackaged())
+            {
+                parentDirectoryForSettingsFile /= UnpackagedSettingsFolderName;
+            }


Yeah -- preview builds just use the same storage as stable when they run unpackaged, so there's no worry here :)

src/cascadia/TerminalSettingsModel/FileUtils.cpp

DHowett

Thank you for doing this! Sorry I let it sit so long!

ghost · 2022-07-06T18:09:30Z

🎉Windows Terminal Preview v1.15.186 has been released which incorporates this pull request.:tada:

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Added initial migrate of Release settings to Preview

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Preview gets existing settings from Release build

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huiyooumich changed the title ~~Added initial migrate of Release settings to Preview~~ Add migrate of Release settings to Preview Apr 14, 2022

huiyooumich changed the title ~~Add migrate of Release settings to Preview~~ Initialize Terminal Preview settings from Terminal settings Apr 14, 2022

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