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Positron should offer to import existing VSCode preferences #1639

Open petetronic opened 1 year ago

petetronic commented 1 year ago

Early feedback from existing VSCode users have been surprised that Positron does not honor their existing VSCode preferences, such as light/dark theme, zoom level, etc. We should offer an option to import preferences if we detect an existing VSCode installation.

This should be possible both as an out of box experience, as well as a command in the command palette that can be accessed at a later time.

juliasilge commented 10 months ago

I looked at this a bit today and am making a few notes:

bschwedler commented 9 months ago

As a VS Code + VIM user I would find this super helpful!

juliasilge commented 9 months ago

This came up today during usability testing with @gadenbuie; he has a lot of user-specified keyboard shortcuts and would like a supported way to get those transferred over.

juliasilge commented 8 months ago

Feedback from private beta: https://github.com/posit-dev/positron-beta/discussions/15

We should look into also offering to import existing VS Code extensions, although we would need to find them on OpenVSX.

juliasilge commented 8 months ago

During usability testing with @machow today, he talked about wanting to import these settings as well.