Recently opened workspaces and files

[vzhukovs]

Hi folks! I'm currently working on these items, especially on implementing workbench.action.openRecent. Want to align WorkspaceServer interface to be look like in IWorkspacesService. But this requires a little modification of related code and tests.

Methods in WorkspaceServer are going to be deprecated at the first time, not removed. This is needed to have backward compatibility.

What do you think of this kind of change?

[akosyakov]

It depends on expectation of VS Code extensions. One thing is to provide simple implementation based on existing APIs to support VS Code extensions, another is to reimplement open recent action to support opening recent workspace files, files without workspaces and so on. If you goal is only to support VS Code extension, the latter is not necessary.

Do you know against which extension we can test it? If there is not a real extension it is fine to provide simple implementation based on existing APIs, i.e add something like WorkspaceService.openRecent which calls WorkspaceServer to fetch recent and then opens it.

[vzhukovs]

At this moment I found only one extension, that actually calls the command workbench.action.openRecent by handling custom hot key. I see. I'll create a simple command handler, that will redirect call to WorkspaceServer.