Adding Group Profiles

[Pedro-Ivo-Neves]

👋🏼 Hi, I think it would be useful for a feature like GROUP PROFILES 👥 that we can organize the Global Extensions according to the need.
I'm a Full-Stack developer 👨🏻‍💻, and it would be nice to have my global extensions organized according to the project if I'm working as a Back-end dev or a Front-end dev.
I think it could be useful even for those who have a multiple jobs or are freelancers and have multiple projects with different techs.
They can organize there extensions according to the project.

I think you could add:

1. New section for the groups profile, where we can:

• Add a Group
• Edit a Group
• Delete a Group

2. New type for Group Extensions but differentiate them from the Global Extensions
   That will enable us to choose exactly what extensions that we want for a specific group and choose extensions that are for all profiles and all groups.

[sandy081]

I am not sure if I understand your requirement. Can you please explain your use case with an example?

[Pedro-Ivo-Neves]

Hey @sandy081 👋🏻, sure I can give an example.

All my profiles that are for Mobile Development (e.g. Flutter, Android and Ionic)
I have the ADB extension

To be able to connect to my Android without a cable.

But I don't need this extension for my Web Development (e.g. Angular, Svelte) profiles that I don't need to see the screens on my android.

Let alone for my profiles that are for Backend (e.g. ExpressJS, Spring).

So, it would be nice to have GROUP PROFILES. In this case would be to separate my Web Development Profiles Extensions from my Mobile Development Profiles Extensions

[sandy081]

So you have 2 Profiles

1. Mobile Development with mobile development profile extensions
2. Web Development with web development profile extensions

Is not this already solved your problem?

[sandy081]

So you have 2 Profiles

1. Mobile Development with mobile development profile extensions
2. Web Development with web development profile extensions

Is not this already solved your problem?

[Pedro-Ivo-Neves]

Hey 👋🏻
I don't have only two profiles
For mobile development I have one for flutter, one for Ionic
For web I have one for svelte, one for angular, etc

My Idea was to have sort of a way to specify the extensions for certain profiles and not for others, so that we don't have to go specify for every profile

Something like this:

[sandy081]

You mean to have a group called Backend and and all profiles in the backend group use the extensions defined in the group and in addition each profile has it own custom set of profiles?

[Pedro-Ivo-Neves]

Yess, exactly

[sandy081]

/duplicate

Looks like a duplicate of #191224 - Profile inheritance.

[vscodenpa]

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