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Allow conhost to be replaced with OpenConsole

Open lhecker opened this issue 1 year ago • 3 comments

Description of the new feature/enhancement

conhost can lack behind OpenConsole by several (if not many) years. This brings 2 problems:

  • People preferring conhost's look and feel cannot get updates for many years.
  • We (the maintainers) cannot test new features and changes for many years.

In other words, not being able to replace conhost is a lose-lose situation.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

  • Ship a conhost package in the store that replaces the system conhost, just like how notepad does it.
  • Consider doing the same for the Windows Terminal Canary package so that we can get a slightly better usage coverage.

lhecker avatar Oct 14 '24 11:10 lhecker