Replace editor empty state illustration
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component: ide
editor: code (browser)
meta: never-stale
team: IDE
type: feature request
user experience
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
- Stars
- 13.8k
- Forks
- 1.4k
- Avg merge
- 17h 58m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 5
Description
Problem to solve
Users that have toggled off the welcome page on VS Code are seeing a generic illustration.
See also relevant discussion (internal).
Proposal
We could consider replacing that illustration with something more related to Gitpod, like using a grayscale version of the logo. See optimized SVG code below:
<svg width="213" height="233" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M126.258 11.603c6.312 11.04 2.474 25.102-8.571 31.41l-68.678 39.22a5.82 5.82 0 00-2.939 5.053v61.587a5.82 5.82 0 002.94 5.053l54.339 31.032a5.87 5.87 0 005.819 0l54.339-31.032a5.82 5.82 0 002.939-5.053v-38.3l-48.868 27.556c-11.08 6.248-25.13 2.336-31.382-8.737-6.251-11.073-2.337-25.114 8.743-31.362l69.925-39.43c21.299-12.01 47.652 3.37 47.652 27.811v67.129a43.81 43.81 0 01-22.089 38.042l-62.418 35.645a43.864 43.864 0 01-43.502 0L22.09 191.582A43.81 43.81 0 010 153.54V82.62a43.81 43.81 0 0122.09-38.042l72.74-41.54c11.045-6.309 25.116-2.474 31.428 8.565z" fill="#F3F3F3"/></svg>
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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
No source file or test is named; start by locating the editor empty-state illustration in the VS Code-facing TypeScript code, then compare it with the attached BEFORE/AFTER screenshots and optimized SVG. Done means the generic illustration is replaced with the proposed Gitpod-related grayscale illustration when the welcome page is disabled.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript, vscode
- Domain
- design, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100