Give config info at session start

[gememma]

Closes #2367

[aviramha]

Can you attach a GIF to show how it looks in CLI/IDE please?

[gememma]

Ah. I completely forgot about the plugins - I'll mark this as a draft and make sure they look good too

[gememma]

For the record, this is how it looks in the CLI:

[gememma]

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[eyalb181]

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@aviramha @Razz4780 @gememma Thoughts about this?

IMO doesn't look great, but perhaps there's a way for us to show this in a persistent UI component within the IDE? Even just mirrord dropdown menu -> Session Status which would make a popup show up. This has the advantage of letting the user check the status throughout the entire session, not just at the start.

[aviramha]

IMO doesn't look great, but perhaps there's a way for us to show this in a persistent UI component within the IDE? Even just mirrord dropdown menu -> Session Status which would make a popup show up. This has the advantage of letting the user check the status throughout the entire session, not just at the start.

Having a persistent UI component has been itching me for a while but I think it should be out of scope for this specific issue. It'd require more design and architecture decisions.
We can consider not having this feature in IDEs for now.

[eyalb181]

IMO doesn't look great, but perhaps there's a way for us to show this in a persistent UI component within the IDE? Even just mirrord dropdown menu -> Session Status which would make a popup show up. This has the advantage of letting the user check the status throughout the entire session, not just at the start.

Having a persistent UI component has been itching me for a while but I think it should be out of scope for this specific issue. It'd require more design and architecture decisions. We can consider not having this feature in IDEs for now.

@gememma In that case, lets just not have this in the IDEs for the moment. Instead, please open follow-up issues in IntelliJ and VS Code to display this in a persistent component.

[Razz4780]

@aviramha @Razz4780 @gememma Thoughts about this?

IMO doesn't look great, but perhaps there's a way for us to show this in a persistent UI component within the IDE? Even just mirrord dropdown menu -> Session Status which would make a popup show up. This has the advantage of letting the user check the status throughout the entire session, not just at the start.

1. VSCode - I'm not sure if we can do better. I don't think notifications respect newlines + there's no "popup" concept in VSCode. We can only use notifications, quickpick, open a new editor tab prefilled with text 🤷
2. IntelliJ - we can do a popup, yeah

Regardless, this is what it's going to look like in old plugin/extension versions. Unless we come up with something very cunning

[eyalb181]

@aviramha @Razz4780 @gememma Thoughts about this?
IMO doesn't look great, but perhaps there's a way for us to show this in a persistent UI component within the IDE? Even just mirrord dropdown menu -> Session Status which would make a popup show up. This has the advantage of letting the user check the status throughout the entire session, not just at the start.

1. VSCode - I'm not sure if we can do better. I don't think notifications respect newlines + there's no "popup" concept in VSCode. We can only use notifications, quickpick, open a new editor tab prefilled with text 🤷
2. IntelliJ - we can do a popup, yeah

Regardless, this is what it's going to look like in old plugin/extension versions. Unless we come up with something very cunning

The left sidebar is probably a good candidate for this on vs code

[gememma]

Having a persistent UI component has been itching me for a while but I think it should be out of scope for this specific issue. It'd require more design and architecture decisions. We can consider not having this feature in IDEs for now.

@gememma In that case, lets just not have this in the IDEs for the moment. Instead, please open follow-up issues in IntelliJ and VS Code to display this in a persistent component.

I agree that this wall-of-text-style notification isn't very nice to look at or parse for details. I'll remove the call in the extension code and at least we know that the information itself is easily sent to the IDE when we figure out the best way to present it. I can also open some issues to track that 👍 thanks all @aviramha @eyalb181 @Razz4780