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The TM Terminal Component has been in "incubation" state with only "internal" APIs for two releases in a row now. Adoption of the Terminal is growing, and there are requests for official APIs to embed the Terminal Widget, create connections programmatically, provide additional contributed services on top of the Terminal, and customize the Terminal Rendering (for providing a hyperlink navigator like in the console). In order to further support and grow adoption, these APIs must be designed and exposed to community feedback before they can be declared final.
Tasks: * Make public: - ITerminalConnector, ISettingsStore, ITerminalViewControl, TerminalSettings * Separate packages for non-UI API from UI-API (to allow potential future refactoring into a separate non-UI bundle) * Refactor ITerminalConnector#makeSettingsPage into separate UI interface * Review state handling - have ITerminalConnector#getState(), and ITerminalControl#updateState() - have ITerminalControl#getConnector() instead of #getState() * Get rid of TerminalState#OPENED * Get rid of ITerminalControl#setMsg() and #writeToTerminal() - review the error reporting mechanism. Perhaps ITerminalControl#reportError(IStatus status)? * Add API for connecting (bug 185348)
Do you think it will be in the plan for the next release ?
Moving deferred 3.3 api items to 3.4
Part of this is being implemented for the Target Explorer Terminal.
The Terminal component of the Eclipse Ecosystem has a new home. The Terminal is now part of the Eclipse CDT project[1]. This change means a new Git repo[2], P2 site[3] and Bugzilla component. The terminal will continue to be delivered as part of the quarterly Simultaneous Release of Eclipse as well. The marketplace entry[4] had not been updated in a few years. It will once again install the latest release of the terminal on the latest release of the whole IDE (currently 2020-03). If this bug is no longer relevant, please feel free to comment or close the bug. If you can confirm if this issues still occurs in the latest release please do let me know in a comment. [1] https://wiki.eclipse.org/CDT/User/NewIn911 [2] https://git.eclipse.org/c/cdt/org.eclipse.cdt.git (in the terminal directory) [3] current release is 9.11 - P2 site https://download.eclipse.org/tools/cdt/releases/9.11/ [4] https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/tm-terminal (This comment was added to all open terminal bugs along with changing the Product/component pair to CDT/terminal.)
