Terminal: Option to create desktop shortcuts to profiles

[tranzystorek-io]

Description of the new feature/enhancement

As a user, I'd like to be able to easily create desktop shortcuts that open a specific profile. This could be done e.g. via right clicking a profile in the profile dropdown and selecting an action "Create desktop shortcut".

For context, I use a Powershell Core profile to do software updates and a WSL shell to do some dev work and I currently cannot find a way to quickly run one of those; I always start the default Powershell profile and then manually open WSL and close Powershell which seems cumbersome.

[zadjii-msft]

You could definitely work around this for now by creating a shortcut that runs wt -p "<the name of your profile>"

[tranzystorek-io]

You could definitely work around this for now by creating a shortcut that runs wt -p "<the name of your profile>"

Sure, but it'd be also nice if Terminal could set the shortcut icon to something other than the default "blank sheet of paper" one, especially since I have Terminal pinned to task bar and it seems like you cannot make/copy a shotcut out of that

[skyline75489]

I think shortcut icon is very customizable since Windows 98. Shouldn't be a real problem.

[tranzystorek-io]

@skyline75489 my point is, when you use the "Pin to taskbar" action on Windows Terminal (or any other application for that matter), the resulting object doesn't seem to be a shortcut (.lnk file), so it cannot be easily copied and modified, including its icon. Therefore the only option seems to be to manually create a new shortcut, which is far more unwieldy for that use case.

[DHowett]

Yanking triage -- this is a really good request. We should see if we can enable it. :smile:

[tranzystorek-io]

As an alternative, this PowerToys feature seems promissing microsoft/PowerToys#4194