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Make it a portable IDE like VSCode. #270

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StellarH opened this issue Jun 12, 2023 · 3 comments · May be fixed by #276
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Make it a portable IDE like VSCode. #270

StellarH opened this issue Jun 12, 2023 · 3 comments · May be fixed by #276
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StellarH commented Jun 12, 2023 •
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Feature Description:

I can add a folder called data in root directory of vscode, then it will become portable, and store all data in that folder. I hope I can do that in theia as well as vscode.

More information added by an Eclipse Theia maintainer:

Portable mode permits having vscode save all it's data in one of its own a sub-folder, instead of the usual places (user's home, user's config directory, etc). That makes it super easy to copy/move all user data to another vscode installation, preserving everything the user changed (preferences, history, installed extensions, ...).

Portable mode can be used only with the "zip" distribution of vscode:

"Portable mode is supported on the ZIP download for Windows, and the TAR.GZ download for Linux, as well as the regular Application download for macOS"
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Hi @StellarH ,

This sounds interesting. Do you have a link for related documentation?

@marcdumais-work marcdumais-work added enhancement new features or requests vscode proposal potential feature requests or proposals labels Jun 12, 2023
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Hi @StellarH ,

This sounds interesting. Do you have a link for related documentation?

Maybe this?

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"Portable mode is supported on the ZIP download for Windows, and the TAR.GZ download for Linux, as well as the regular Application download for macOS"

I suspect that portable mode does not really care about which packaging of vscode was used to install it. However, it probably makes sense not to officially support using a modified system-wide installation of a tool, and the permission and other various issues, likely to follow. I think Theia should probably do similar.

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