A pane doesn't necessarily need to host a terminal.

[zadjii-msft]

A pane doesn't necessarily need to host a terminal. It could potentially host another UIElement. One could imagine enabling a user to quickly open up a Browser pane to search for a particular string without needing to leave the terminal.

notes:

• dev/migrie/f/non-terminal-panes was the original prototype
  This prototype built a media pane for the Terminal. An example screenshot:
  
  I can't find the original gif, cause that was from 2019. The demo deck is in a recording linked to a mail from jeffbog "RE: DEP Hackathon Share-Out", 8/7/2019
• dev/migrie/fhl/adaptive-card-extension had a draft of this in Oct 2021
• dev/migrie/fhl/non-terminal-panes-2023 an attempted start circa May 2023. Didn't have more than a few hours for it though.
  • dev/migrie/fhl/scratchpad-pane for the branch with a test pane in it.
    • dev/migrie/f/sui-panes
      • dev/migrie/fhl-fall-2023/oceans
        • A comment from leonard: you can just render an HWND to a Composition surface, and then insert a comp surface into the xaml tree. So look at that next hackathon
      • Tasks pane: dev/migrie/fhl/tasks-pane dev/migrie/f/sui-panes...dev/migrie/fhl/tasks-pane, somewhere in the neighborhood of VSCode-like Shell Integration #13445
        • Markdown pane: dev/migrie/fhl/md-pane dev/migrie/f/tasks-pane...dev/migrie/fhl/md-pane
      • +til events ==> dev/migrie/fhl/2024-spring-merge-base
        • Inline notebooks: dev/migrie/fhl/2024-spring-merge-base...dev/migrie/fhl/2024-inline-notebook

[mdtauk]

This issue is related I believe #644