Make "What's new" panel conditional

[ratermir]

I use this plugin in Eclipse Theia IDE. It works well, but there is one annoying feature of this plugin: it shows "What's new" panel (or maybe screen ? - I don't know a terminology of IDE development) every time IDE starts. In case Theia remote development it means every time IDE connects to the server. It may led to tens of "What's new" panels opened after some time I am off the computer when the line is not perfect (celular with low signal, DSL in long distance from DSLAM ... etc).

I am not sure whether "What's new" screens are useful at all (I never read it and I don't know anyone who do it), so removing it could be a reasonable option :) but Adding an IDE confguration item (for example "openapi.showWhatsNew=false/true") where I decide I want to show it (or not) would be also good option.

[ak1394]

Hi @ratermir ! Sure, that sounds annoying! We haven't tested this extension with Theia IDE, and the behavior you are seeing is not intentional. The "what's new" panel should be shown only once when the new major release is published (for instance, the 3.0 release was in April 2020, and 4.0 is Feburary 2021), but it looks like the Theia IDE somehow manages to reset the global state where we store the current version number, and that results in frequent "what's new" panel being displayed.

I'll see what I can do to sort it out on Theia and will update this issue once I know more.

[ratermir]

Thank you for response. Another extension has the same issue, it's author investigated possible solution. Maybe it also helps you:
alefragnani/vscode-whats-new#23