Add new feature to vscode - recommended plugin installation

[alfeilex]

In the past, when installing vscode, the devonfw-extentions-pack was automatically installed. This plugin installs ~60 additional extensions and takes some time to complete the installation of all of extensions. This causes errors for the nightly tests and perhaps, more importantly, not every user wants to have this plugin installed by default. So the idea is to add an option in the vscode command to install vscode without devofw-exetnsions-pack.

The new option should be to recommend plugins to the user after opening it. One possible way would be to add an entry like Recommend=true in the properties file. Here is the description of how to implement the whole thing for vscode.

However, the default should be that the plugin is installed automatically, the recommendation is just an option.

• DoD
• Adding the option to recommend plugins to the user
• Adjusting the vscode documentation

[hohwille]

To follow the naming of our plugin properties files the option should rather be:

plugin_recommended=true

Please notice: The "recommendation" of a plugin is a VSCode specific feature that will give a "grown popup notification" informing the end-user that there is a recommended plugin the user should install and he can then choose to do so manually or he can reject.
When implementing this please do not forget to update the documentation:
https://github.com/devonfw/ide/blob/7f58a1fa39e77adce4a56e1f62d790faf2fa2507/documentation/vscode.asciidoc#plugins

[alfeilex]

While implementing this feature, I have the following idea. When vscode is set up the doAddPlugins function

ide/scripts/src/main/resources/scripts/command/vscode

Line 48 in 689d2df

function doAddPlugins() {

will install all plugins configured in the ide settings. Maybe it makes more sense to add deactivated plugins automatically as "recommended". As a result we don't need an additional property.

Furthermore, we could add a new option devon vscode clean-setup which installs vscode without any plugins and recommendations. This feature can be used by the user and we can use this for nightly testing.

The function is already implemented in PR #990. I need feedback to add this feature to the documenation and complete the PR.

[alfeilex]

The documentation has been updated, but we still need to dicuss how detailed we need to explain this feature in the docs.