I like, we already to that for status bar messages

I postpone this until we get the new notification story in place

Could you tell us which API for extension can send the message.
some FUNCTION called showInformationMessage or just showInformationMessage ?

@bpasero Given that this annoys people is there something the message service can do with ease?

@jrieken so for the status bar you were talking about this right?

Our notification UX needs an overhaul (we started to revisit this recently but it needs more thinking - @stevencl fyi) and so we have only limited amount of things we can do in the UI.

A couple of ideas

• add another button at the end of each message that comes from an extension to "Manage" that extension (a bit ugly because it makes the whole thing even more complicated)
• prefix the message with the name of the extension (e.g. [TypeScript] bla bla)
• decorate the message in some way that its clear the message is from an extension (maybe with the prefix as stated before):

We should do something pragmatic and simple given that this UI is throwaway code anyways.

To begin with, I have added a source attribute that show on hover....

Refined this to show the extension id along the extension name and to also show the hover on the severity label

@jrieken I think it has to be extension display name instead of extension.name. extension id is nothing but ${publisher_id}.${extension.name}. Showing extension name again is redundant.

Shall I file a separate issue or reopen this?

@sandy081 Please make a separate issue, thanks