Feature: Support Create Settings Profile For Current Workspace

[joyceerhl]

This milestone I've done investigation on * activated extensions and am motivated to find ways to reduce their impact on perceived VS Code performance. One way to frame the problem is that if I am a user who has installed an extension which is either * activated or later becomes * activated, I pay the cost of that extension activating (code loading plus running whatever is in its activate method) whenever VS Code starts up. This also applies to extensions which are onStartupFinished activated or otherwise eagerly activated.

I wonder whether there is an opportunity to make it easier for users to manage such extensions and therefore extract better performance out of VS Code (e.g. I audited my installed extensions list and immediately saw improved startup times).

• For example, today we have the ability to disable extensions for a specific workspace. We now have the dropdown button to Install and Install pre-release for extensions. I wonder if we could have an additional action to install extensions only for a specific workspace. In the same way that we show the option to install pre-releases first in Insiders, we could show the option to install and enable (workspace) first for eagerly activated extensions
• This potentially relates to settings profiles which controls which extensions are installed/enabled. Perhaps we could have a command like Extensions: Create Settings Profile For Current Workspace which takes the user through creating an optimized settings profile with just the extensions that need to be installed and activated. One qualm I have with the Settings Profiles: Create From Current Settings Profile... command is that it doesn't let me review what's in the profile before creating. For the extensions-oriented action, we could have a quickpick with checkboxes for which extensions are going to be included in the profile (and maybe deselect the extensions which are installed but haven't been activated for the current workspace). This could also be an opportunity to include extensions that are recommended for the current workspace via .vscode/extensions.json.

[sandy081]

@joyceerhl Good ideas and the first idea is already requested. Extensions: Create Settings Profile For Current Workspace seems to be an interesting thought. It was not clear to me what is the clear action item here and how the settings profile action will be helping.

[joyceerhl]

We can consider this issue a feature request for Create Settings Profile For Current Workspace then :)

[vscodenpa]

This issue has been closed automatically because it needs more information and has not had recent activity. See also our issue reporting guidelines.

Happy Coding!

[sandy081]

Profiles feature is still in preview mode and we do not know whether this will be a feature which users want or not. Hence I am closing this for now and reopen this when more users wanted this.