[tasks | epic] implement tasks improvements

[vince-fugnitto]

Description

This is a general tracker for Tasks usability improvements.

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Improvements

👍 Task: Restart Running Task (#5330 )

• Add a new command and menu terminal menu item in order to restart a running task.

👍 Terminate Task... (#5331)

• Add the terminate task menu item to the terminal menu

👍 Disallow running identical tasks (#5269)

• Disallow users from running the exact same task twice if it is currently running.
• If a user attempts to re-run a currently running task, prompt them to either Terminate or Restart the task instead.

👍 Display task info in the terminal (#5332)

• When executing a task, report the task information directly in the terminal to be as transparent as possible to end-users.

👍 Re-use an existing terminal for identical tasks (#5269 (comment))

• If present, use an existing terminal to re-execute an identical task.

👍 Automate the creation of tasks.json (#1017)

• Add new command to automate the creation of the tasks.json file if not present.
• If a user attempts to Add Configuration without a tasks.json file present, add a quick-open item to trigger it's creation.

👍 Show Running Tasks... (#5346)

• Add the new command and terminal menu item which describes the list of running tasks and upon selection sets the terminal focus of the given task.

👍 Allow users to put comments in tasks.json (#5505)

• use jsonc in tasks.json

👍 Support compound tasks (#5517)

• See https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/tasks#_compound-tasks for details

👍 Align Theia Task schema with VS Code (#5516, #1096)

👍 Theia should not allow users to customize all properties of a detected task (#5679)

• vs code only allows 3 properties to be customized: problem matcher: isBackground, and task group.

cc @elaihau

[lmcbout]

Should we also have the "Show Running Task" as we can find in VSCode ?

[vince-fugnitto]

Closing the epic as the items have been completed, and follow-up issues have already been opened which are taking care of any missing functionality.