feat: add Default terminal setting & Open in terminal menu

[peaklabs-dev]

ToDo & Limitations

• Limitation: Currently, this change only works for macOS because the app names are specific to macOS. I am not 100% sure how we would make this change cross platform as app names could be different on windows.
• ToDo: Instead of using links to open all the code editors (like now), we could refactor that part of the code to open via app names as well using one clean function. This would be helpful because once every default terminal and code editor is opened via the app name, we could allow custom apps we do not have in the list as well. To add a custom app the users could select an app from the app folder, which would be very useful because we would not have to add every editor and the user can just select one. Good idea??

🧢 Changes

• feat(ui): add default terminal settings to the General settings page
• feat(core): add Open in Terminal to project menu which opens the current project in the default terminal

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[PavelLaptev]

@peaklabs-dev thank you for the PR :-)
I made a small commit. I moved "default terminal" and "default editor" into a single group because they both relate to default tools.

[PavelLaptev]

@peaklabs-dev Is this still something we want to merge right?

[peaklabs-dev]

@PavelLaptev Yes, but I'm not sure how to implement this for Linux and Windows. Also, should we switch to opening the app for code editors as well instead of links, to allow custom app selection?

[Byron]

If open::with_command(…) would be used instead, I think this would be portable provided viable app-names. The .app suffix on MacOS also wouldn't be needed then, I think

Generally I think it would be OK to start supporting MacOS and add Windows/Linux later. This probably would be gated where the available app-names are configured.

[PavelLaptev]

@PavelLaptev Yes, but I'm not sure how to implement this for Linux and Windows.

I see. Yes, it would be nice to handle it for all platforms.

should we switch to opening the app for code editors as well instead of links, to allow custom app selection?

What do you mean?