Use defaultConfiguration instead of pop up notification

[jrieken]

We are trying to reduce the amount of pop-ups (read noise) users are getting on first start or when installing extensions. IntelliCode is on the radar because of this:

I remember there has been a discussion about us changing/not changing the default for all of VS Code - something we have no plans at this time. However, the pop-up-solution isn't a good outcome and IntelliCode should make use of configuration defaults. They allow, per language, to change the default of a setting, e.g.

{
  "contributes": {
    "configurationDefaults": {
      "[java]": {
        "editor.suggestSelection": "first",
      }
    }
  }
}

will turn suggest selection to first for all Java as long as IntelliCode is installed. This yield the better default, avoids prompting users directly after install, and doesn't conflict with user settings.

[vivlimmsft]

We used to use configurationDefaults, but the issue we encountered is that if someone wanted to override our default and force a different option, such as recentlyUsedByPrefix, they had to specify language specific overrides for all of the languages we support to override our defaults, i.e.:

    "[javascript]": {
        "editor.suggestSelection": "recentlyUsedByPrefix"
    },
    "[typescript]": {
        "editor.suggestSelection": "recentlyUsedByPrefix"
    },
    "[java]": {
        "editor.suggestSelection": "recentlyUsedByPrefix"
    },
    "[python]": {
        "editor.suggestSelection": "recentlyUsedByPrefix"
    }

If they didn't, our default would still take precedence over their editor.suggestSelection config.
(See #53 (comment) for our prior discussion on this)

The main reason we went with this approach is that there isn't (wasn't?) a way to define configurationDefaults which apply to all languages.

[jrieken]

This should help: microsoft/vscode#46851. It's planned for the not so distant future 👀 /cc @sandy081

[markw-t]

Reopening due to erroneous bot closure. Apologies for any confusion

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