On the Welcome page, under Recent, indicate which windows are already open

[matthias-ccri]

Type: Feature Request

I work on a lot of different things at once. When I open VSCode, the Welcome screen shows "Recent" workspaces and directories. I never know which ones I already have open. (I check out the same repo multiple times, so I have multiple workspaces.)

Often times, when I click on one of the Recent items, instead of opening it, it reveals an existing VSCode window, sometimes in a different desktop workspace. Then I need to go back to the initial VSCode window with the Welcome screen, and try a different one.

This is a minor annoyance, but it would be solved with a minor indicator of whether an item under Recent is already open in a VSCode window somewhere. That would just be chef's kiss.

VS Code version: Code 1.93.1 (38c31bc77e0dd6ae88a4e9cc93428cc27a56ba40, 2024-09-11T17:20:05.685Z) OS version: Linux x64 6.8.0-40-generic snap Modes:

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