Optionally open last used folder

[stirby]

A customer requested that we add an option to open the last used directory in VSCode, rather than the one configured by the agent.

If VSCode desktop is configured without the folder, it should default to the last-used directory. However, if the coder_agent is given a default directory to use for ssh connections, this will override that behavior.

It would be nice if in the terraform provider we could explicitly enforce opening the last-used directory.

We want to mimic the desktop behavior as closely as possible.

resource "coder_app" "vscode" {
  agent_id     = agent_id
  icon         = "/icon/code.svg"
  slug         = "vscode"
  display_name = "VS Code Desktop"
  order        = var.order
  ...
  open_recent = true # defaults to false
}

[kylecarbs]

Good idea

[bpmct]

This would be huge!

[code-asher]

I added it to the VS Code desktop app module, do note though that it will not affect the builtin VS Code desktop app since we expose no options for configuring that. At least, I think?

Does that seem sufficient or do you think we might need a way to configure this for the built-in app? Or make opening recent the default for the built-in app?

Ideal is to move people to the module if they need configuration, I think.

[stirby]

@code-asher that's great. I agree we should direct customers to the registry when possible.

However, the requesting customer can't use our modules (airgapped), so we'd have to support something in the built-in app too. I initially imagined adding a new field under display_apps in coder_agent; I now realize that's not possible.

We should just make opening recent the default for the built-in app.

Ideal behaviour:

• First connection uses the ssh folder configured in the agent
• Subsequent connections use last-used folder

Again, rationale is emulating local VSCode.

[code-asher]

Sounds good, I will just make it the default! Seems pretty reasonable to me anyway, especially since the built-in has no way to configure a separate folder from the agent.