Add If then else in json schema for conditional logic

[Joel-Nickson]

Description of the new feature/enhancement

It would be nice to have conditions in json as defined in json-schema.org

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

settings.json
...
"if":{"startingDirectory": "C:\\WINDOWS\\system32"},
"then":{"startingDirectory": "%USERPROFILE%\\Desktop"},
"else":{"startingDirectory": "."},
...

Problem:

• I have set the "startingDirectory": "." in the settings.json for now. In that case the
  wt starts up at "C:\WINDOWS\system32" if i start the terminal from the start Menu or using an Autohot-key or any other app that can create an instance of the wt (like opening from cmd or from sublime-text),
  and if I right click on a folder and open the terminal then I get the terminal in the current directory of the folder.

• And if I set the "startingDirectory": "C:\Users\\Desktop" then I get the terminal in that directory always(except on opening using menubar in a folder) even if I want to open it on a current folder sometimes

Other use cases:

• increase the size of the terminal when using the split-pane actions maybe like

"when": {"command": {"action":"splitPane"}},
"then":["initialCols": 180,"initialRows": 30]

• or changing the background of the window based on the current time(if it was possible to read system time or any how)

[Joel-Nickson]

Sadly, I am not a developer from ms.
This issue will be tracked by the bot and then will be reviewed by the maintainers or developers and they have the power to assign this to you, not me.
If you know know what you need to do then I am sure you can work on it once they approve.

[zadjii-msft]

@Joel-Nickson Is this not something that the commandline wt -d .would solve? I'd worry about adding a lot of potential complexity here. This sounds like something that'd be neigh-impossible to hook up to the settings UI in a reasonable fashion.

increase the size of the terminal when using the split-pane actions

This sounds like a good use case for the multipleActions action (new in 1.12), combined with the setWindowPos action (which is on my personal backlog but I don't think I filed anywhere)

changing the background of the window based on the current time(if it was possible to read system time or any how)

Now, that one doesn't have a good alternate solution, but feels like a good extension idea (#4000)

[Joel-Nickson]

multipleActions action (new in 1.12), combined with the setWindowPos action

I can't wait for the wt v1.12 then

Is this not something that the commandline wt -d . would solve?

and yes, that solved my problem 1

[zadjii-msft]

Glad to hear it! I'm gonna close this for now since the underlying problem is solved. If we come up with more elaborate use cases, and a more well-defined design, we can reopen in the future. Thanks!