More integration with Windows features

Add commands to interact with standard Windows features. Metro Notifications, systray messages, Message boxes, and maybe even window actions. (close/minimize other windows)

Moved here from uservoice to @bitcrazed's request

This sounds kinda like a commandline ask, but not necessarily a Terminal ask.

I don't think it's a bad idea, but it's also not necessarily home on this repo. However, I'm not sure there is a better home for this. This set of asks kinda fits with colortool if you ask me - things that improve the commandline experience on Windows that we track as a part of this repo.

This might be a good idea for powertoys, like new commandline tool / powershell module to show toast messages, manipulate windows or what not.

This might be a good idea for powertoys, like new commandline tool / powershell module to show toast messages, manipulate windows or what not.

That kind of misses the point. The strength of this feature set is to allow CLI tool/library developers to provide a richer experience to their users by integrating with engaging OS features.

That kind of misses the point. The strength of this feature set is to allow CLI tool/library developers to provide a richer experience to their users by integrating with engaging OS features.

Then I guess you can always call Windows APIs in said CLI tool/library, rundll32.exe can also be useful sometimes. Although I know sometimes Windows APIs require you to have a Window, or worse, a UWP CoreWindow in order to work, that will be tricky in a CLI tool. It would be cool to remove these limitations for those APIs. Or maybe a special VT sequence to define a toast/message box? Such thing can also be cross-platform.

So as much as a VT sequence could work in this scenario, I think a separate standalone commandline application for sending a notification might be a better solution for at least the sending a notification bit here. That way, we wouldn't need to rely on the Windows Terminal handling that VT sequence - users using any terminal on Windows could still send notifications from the commandline by calling that standalone exe. That's my 2c on the matter at least.

Would be nice if commands that are done in background (when other app is active and terminal works, e.g. on npm install) have notification like "npm command finished!".

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/2825#issuecomment-534555671

Perhaps this would be better requested at https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/new?assignees=&labels=Issue-Enhancement%2CNeeds-Triage&projects=&template=Feature_Request.yaml?