Remove Recents from the welcome page in Code editor
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component: ide
editor: code (browser)
meta: never-stale
user experience
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
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Description
Problem to solve
Currently, when you open a workspace the welcome page of the Code editor surfaces previously opened workspaces. However, clicking these workspaces loads an empty editor or returns an error.
| Recent | Error |
|---|---|
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Proposal
Let's either remove this section from the welcome page or do not surface any workspace in the recent list.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start at the Code editor welcome page and reproduce the broken Recent workspace behavior described in the issue. Locate the implementation and any related tests, then confirm the chosen resolution: the welcome page no longer shows unusable recent workspaces or the Recent section is removed.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript, vscode
- Domain
- developer-experience, frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 32/100