This commit adds initial support for saving window layout on application
close.
Done:
- Add user setting for if tabs should be maintained.
- Added events to track the number of open windows for the monarch, and
then save if you are the last window closing.
- Saves layout when the user explicitly hits the "Close Window" button.
- If the user manually closed all of their tabs (through the tab x
button or through closing all panes on the tab) then remove any saved
state.
- Saves in the ApplicationState file a list of actions the terminal can
perform to restore its layout and the window size/position
information.
- This saves an action to focus the correct pane, but this won't
actually work without #10978. Note that if you have a pane zoomed, it
does still zoom the correct pane, but when you unzoom it will have a
different pane selected.
Todo:
- multiple windows? Right now it can only handle loading/saving one
window.
- PR #11083 will save multiple windows.
- This also sometimes runs into the existing bug where multiple tabs
appear to be focused on opening.
Next Steps:
- The business logic of when the save is triggered can be adjusted as
necessary.
- Right now I am taking the pragmatic approach and just saving the state
as an array of objects, but only ever populate it with 1, that way
saving multiple windows in the future could be added without breaking
schema compatibility. Selfishly I'm hoping that handling multiple
windows could be spun off into another pr/feature for now.
- One possible thing that can maybe be done is that the commandline can
be augmented with a "--saved ##" attribute that would load from the
nth saved state if it exists. e.g. if there are 3 saved windows, on
first load it can spawn three wt --saved {0,1,2} that would reopen the
windows? This way there also exists a way to load a copy of a previous
window (if it is in the saved state).
- Is the application state something that is planned to be public/user
editable? In theory the user could since it is just json, but I don't
know what it buys them over just modifying their settings and
startupActions.
Validation Steps Performed:
- The happy path: open terminal -> set setting to true -> close terminal
-> reopen and see tabs. Tested with powershell/cmd/wsl windows.
- That closing all panes/tabs on their own will remove the saved
session.
- Open multiple windows, close windows and confirm that the last window
closed saves its state.
The generated file stores a sequence of actions that will be executed to
restore the terminal to its saved form.
References #8324
This is also one of the items on microsoft/terminal#5000Closes#766
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