Option to automatically open a workspace if opening a folder

[devantler]

A previous issue (#64565) was closed without resolving this. I still think this would be a welcome change, as accepting a prompt to open the workspace whenever one opens a folder with a workspace file is annoying. The issue would also help solve a feature request for the Project Manager extension related to the same problem (alefragnani/vscode-project-manager#334 (comment)).

I am opening this issue in the hope of the team revisiting this issue 🙏🏻

[bpasero]

Can you explain how this would work exactly? What if there are multiple workspace files in a folder and how deeply nested should a search for workspace files go?

[devantler]

So I think a friendly approach would be to look for workspace files at the root of the opened folder. And then apply the following rules:

• If there is one workspace file at the root of the folder, open it automatically if some setting (e.g. workbench.openWorkspaceAutomatically is set to true. Otherwise, show the prompt to open a workspace as usual.
• If there are multiple workspace files at the root of the folder, open a prompt (similar to the one that pops up now) where the user can choose which workspace to open from a list of the possible workspaces. The prompt with the list could be an extension of the current prompt and should be the default behaviour when opening folders.

In my case, I do not have any wish for it to look into nested folders for workspaces, as I only miss this when I open a folder with a workspace at its root, and it is not automatically opened.

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