Vscode: Show project README when opening a project

Created on 26 Jul 2017  路  4Comments  路  Source: microsoft/vscode

When I open a project in VS Code, I get presented with the Welcome screen. While that screen is nice, I believe it would be even more valuable to present the project's README (or README.md or .txt, whichever is present) in that same screen or even instead of that screen. This way, when you open VS Code without any open project you would be presented with the Welcome screen as it currently is, whereas if you open a project the README would be shown prominently (possibly with some of the shortcuts of the Welcome screen still on the right-hand side or something similar).

feature-request good first issue workbench-welcome
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picture arendjr
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On it! :octocat:

picture iamnapo on 3 Oct 2018
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That's a quite good idea!

jens1o picture jens1o on 26 Jul 2017

Hello, can I work on that?

iamnapo picture iamnapo on 2 Oct 2018

@iamnapo It might be easiest to add it somewhere here: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/9588b6fe87647452d8e1432e45c54d28839c9495/src/vs/workbench/parts/welcome/page/electron-browser/welcomePage.ts#L63

You could add a setting to turn it on / off and would let the README win over the Welcome Page in the above code.

chrmarti picture chrmarti on 3 Oct 2018

On it! :octocat:

iamnapo picture iamnapo on 3 Oct 2018
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