Feature Request: Preview of open tabs in task bar

[crutkas]

I would like to have each of my tabs show up in my task bar when I hover over the icon like Edge browser.

[zadjii-msft]

This is a good idea.

[DHowett-MSFT]

This is really difficult for our app actually. DWM and Shell interact to only provide window previews for things with HWNDs. Since we're using XAML UI, our terminals don't actually have HWNDs. A bunch of thought is required on this.

[crutkas]

I believe tabbed shell provided an API to do just this. I remember talking to Raymond Chen on this during his Build talk from 2018. Wonder if that API is still in or did it get pulled

[AnuthaDev]

@DHowett I wonder if this would help🤔🤔

[DHowett]

Example code doesn’t change the fact that we don’t have HWNDs to register with the compositor :)

[DHowett]

There’s probably some clever hack we can do by allocating hidden windows and giving them fake contents, intercepting their activation events, etc. We just have done that yet!

[AnuthaDev]

Example code doesn’t change the fact that we don’t have HWNDs to register with the compositor :)

So, there needs to be a separate hwnd for each preview in a group?

[DHowett]

Yes.

[splitice]

This and in the alt-tab window selector too. I hope the method chosen provides both.

Its really the only thing left thats keeping me on putty for my SSH terminal windows. Tabs are great, but they NEED to be properly integrated. Latest pre-releases have detachable tabs, just waiting on things like this to complete the experience.