New Windows Terminal is already available in Microsoft Store
The new Windows Terminal, which Microsoft announced on MS Build 2019 , is already available for download in the store, according to an official blog. For those interested - the project repository on GitHub .
Terminal is a new Windows application for centralized access to the PowerShell, Cmd and Linux kernel subsystems in the Windows Subsystem Linux package. The latter became available for building Windows Insider build 18917 already on June 20.
In order to use the new Terminal, two conditions must be met: install Windows 10 version 18362.0 or higher and find the Microsoft Store button. Of course, you can always assemble Terminal from sorts laid out on GitHub, but the developers warn that in this case “manually assembled version will work in parallel with the version from the desktop”. Apparently, it is understood that the stor will not pick up the manually assembled terminal and will not be updated independently.
One of the main features of Terminal, which is actively “sold” in the company's blog, is a substantial number of profiles.
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Each of the profiles can be configured separately by editing the corresponding JSON file.
Microsoft also offers each user to choose which hotkeys and combinations to use, and customize them to your taste.
Cherry customization was the ability to change the background-image of each profile through the banal pulling up the image from the hard disk. So there is no limit to the imagination.
Why are there no technical details in the Microsoft blog? Why the emphasis is on customization, hotkeys and other cosmetics?
The first is that everyone has already said everything about Terminal on Build 2019 and there is nothing to add. Now the company is trying to show that the new application is a friendly and convenient product that goes hand in hand with the new WSL. In fact, Microsoft just rolled out what they promised us in May and there’s nothing really to add.
The second is that some time will pass before the release of version 1.0. Judging by the text of the Microsoft blog, Terminal will not be out of the active sawing stage until winter, that is, it will appear on stable-versions of Windows in the store only in half a year.
At the same time, representatives of the company are actively campaigning the community to provide feedback on the new product. So, Microsoft will be very grateful for comments and suggestions on the Terminal in its repository on Github and, we will tell you, the community responded to this cry. We think that in the coming week there will be a lot of comments in the “issues”.
Terminal is a new Windows application for centralized access to the PowerShell, Cmd and Linux kernel subsystems in the Windows Subsystem Linux package. The latter became available for building Windows Insider build 18917 already on June 20.
In order to use the new Terminal, two conditions must be met: install Windows 10 version 18362.0 or higher and find the Microsoft Store button. Of course, you can always assemble Terminal from sorts laid out on GitHub, but the developers warn that in this case “manually assembled version will work in parallel with the version from the desktop”. Apparently, it is understood that the stor will not pick up the manually assembled terminal and will not be updated independently.
One of the main features of Terminal, which is actively “sold” in the company's blog, is a substantial number of profiles.
')
Each of the profiles can be configured separately by editing the corresponding JSON file.
Microsoft also offers each user to choose which hotkeys and combinations to use, and customize them to your taste.
Cherry customization was the ability to change the background-image of each profile through the banal pulling up the image from the hard disk. So there is no limit to the imagination.
And now let's get a little more serious.
Why are there no technical details in the Microsoft blog? Why the emphasis is on customization, hotkeys and other cosmetics?
The first is that everyone has already said everything about Terminal on Build 2019 and there is nothing to add. Now the company is trying to show that the new application is a friendly and convenient product that goes hand in hand with the new WSL. In fact, Microsoft just rolled out what they promised us in May and there’s nothing really to add.
The second is that some time will pass before the release of version 1.0. Judging by the text of the Microsoft blog, Terminal will not be out of the active sawing stage until winter, that is, it will appear on stable-versions of Windows in the store only in half a year.
At the same time, representatives of the company are actively campaigning the community to provide feedback on the new product. So, Microsoft will be very grateful for comments and suggestions on the Terminal in its repository on Github and, we will tell you, the community responded to this cry. We think that in the coming week there will be a lot of comments in the “issues”.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/457150/
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