About the projects.json file

[fade2gray]

Thanks for any info.

[alefragnani]

Hi @fade2gray,

Ok, let's go 😄 :

• paths: The idea came a bit before the VS Code team started working in multi-root workspaces, with the same purpose. In the end, the VS Code implementation was well received, and the attribute ended up obsolete. But, there is an open issue (Option to open folders in paths as new windows #121) asking to use this attribute as a way to open new VS Code windows with those paths

• group: The idea is to give each project a group/tag, in a way to organize folders. It's directly associated with Contextual Structure for Projects #50, but it will be replaced to be an array instead of a string. More details about how I'm planning is commented here Contextual Structure for Projects #50 (comment)

• enabled: It refers to the possibility to Hide projects, in the Favorites panel. It was originally requested Hide Project #154, contributed via this PR Add ability to temporarily disable individual projects (#154) #226. There is an open issue ([FEATURE] - Improve "Disabled Projects" experience #368) to make some improvements on that.

Hope this helps

[fade2gray]

@alefragnani Thank you for the explanations. 👍

While I have your attention, can I point you here?

[vilija19]

Hi @fade2gray,

Ok, let's go 😄 :

• paths: The idea came a bit before the VS Code team started working in multi-root workspaces, with the same purpose. In the end, the VS Code implementation was well received, and the attribute ended up obsolete. But, there is an open issue (Option to open folders in paths as new windows #121) asking to use this attribute as a way to open new VS Code windows with those paths
• group: The idea is to give each project a group/tag, in a way to organize folders. It's directly associated with Contextual Structure for Projects #50, but it will be replaced to be an array instead of a string. More details about how I'm planning is commented here Contextual Structure for Projects #50 (comment)
• enabled: It refers to the possibility to Hide projects, in the Favorites panel. It was originally requested Hide Project #154, contributed via this PR Add ability to temporarily disable individual projects (#154) #226. There is an open issue ([FEATURE] - Improve "Disabled Projects" experience #368) to make some improvements on that.

Hope this helps

Is it still possible to use paths to work with multiroot projects?
If so, would you give some examples of paths?
VScode multi-root workspaces are not so comfortable to work in, because there is no way to open the .code-workspace file at the start of a session automatically.

[alefragnani]

Hi @vilija19 ,

No, it is not possible. That attribute isn't being used yet, and would probably be removed in future releases.

I'm not sure what you mean about there is no way to open a .code-workspace file at the start of a session automatically. What s your use case?