Default Profile for Common Profile Settings

[damianpowell]

Default Profile for Common Profile Settings

Allow settings which the user would like applied to all profiles to be specified in a profile with a well-known name, such as "name" : "_default". All settings in this profile will be applied before they are overridden from individual profiles. This would be helpful to allow all profiles to have acrylic applied with a certain opacity where those settings are not specified.

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{
    "name" : "_default",
    "useAcrylic" : true,
    "acrylicOpacity" : 0.5,
    "closeOnExit" : true,
    "colorScheme" : "Campbell",
    "cursorColor" : "#FFFFFF",
    "cursorShape" : "bar",
    "fontFace" : "Consolas",
    "fontSize" : 10,
    "historySize" : 9001,
    "padding" : "0, 0, 0, 0",
    "snapOnInput" : true,
    "startingDirectory" : "%USERPROFILE%"
},
{
    "name" : "PowerShell Core",
    "commandline" : "C:\\Program Files\\PowerShell\\6\\pwsh.exe",
    "guid" : "{574e775e-4f2a-5b96-ac1e-a2962a402336}",
    "icon" : "ms-appx:///ProfileIcons/{574e775e-4f2a-5b96-ac1e-a2962a402336}.png",
},
{
    "name" : "cmd",
    "commandline" : "cmd.exe",
    "guid" : "{0caa0dad-35be-5f56-a8ff-afceeeaa6101}",
    "icon" : "ms-appx:///ProfileIcons/{0caa0dad-35be-5f56-a8ff-afceeeaa6101}.png",
    "useAcrylic" : false
},
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[mcpiroman]

Sounds like subset of #1258 (comment)

[carlos-zamora]

Tagging @zadjii-msft for ideas regarding Cascading Settings.

Personally, I think that the current spec covers this functionality in a cleaner way, but @zadjii-msft might catch something I'm missing here. :)

[zadjii-msft]

So I'm gonna leave this open (unless there's another issue we've got already tracking this bit).

This is one of the things I refer to in the #1258 spec, but I specifically don't cover to try and keep that spec as atomic as possible. I absolutely want to be able to include a default profile to the settings that's used as the prototype for all the other profiles you might have.

This is probably something that'll be spec'd up once #754 is more ironed out.

[DHowett-MSFT]

@zadjii-msft this probably only needs a very light spec, if one at all. Proposal to change type to Issue-Task?