Consolidate Tray Icons OR (alternatively) Distinguish between Elevated and Unelevated Instances

[pa-0]

Description of the new feature/enhancement

Currently, if we have two instances of Terminal running (one elevated and one not), we get two identical icons in the task bar. This can be a slight inconvenience when Terminal is set to minimize to tray, as often, it requires that we activate both windows to determine which is the one with which we actually want to interact:

An improvement could be as simple as a change of color, or a small shield badge to differentiate the two icons. Or even better, (if it's even possible) consolidate the icons into one, and allow the user to select the desired window from a context menu.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

[zadjii-msft]

Thanks for the suggestion! We're gonna toss this on the backlog.

Consolidating the icons into a single icon will probably be impossible. As far as the system is concerned, the two different elevation levels are entirely different apps.

So, we could just make new icons with shields on them. Someone would need to spin up stable/preview/dev/canary icons that also include the shield, then stick that into the .rc. It'd be easy but tedious.

[pa-0]

I wouldn't mind putting together a POC/PR. I will try to find some time to rustle something acceptable together.

[totkeks]

Thanks for this issue. I was wondering why I had two tray icons in the taskbar and wanted to create a bug report for it. But now I found your issue and created a new elevated terminal and there it was, showing something again.

Would also be cool to not have the tray icon for elevated terminals, or at least a quit button in the context menu.