Feedbacks on using Theia IDE in Che on daily basis

[sunix]

Description

List of issue such as bugs or UX improvements or missing features to improve Theia IDE on Che to develop Theia and Che plugins or extension.

Small issues

• Git: hard to see where we are ... current branch ? current repo ? how to switch ? etc ...
• Git ... annotate ?
• Dashboard: sometimes, after changing a workspace definition and reloading it, workspace loading immediatly fails showing the error undefined and asking to hit F5 to refresh. Che-theia loader undefined #11773
• Regression Factory: branch checkout is not working anymore with the error can not find reference;
• Regression Task/Commands (with Theia 0.3.14): Running a command is not showing any more the output of the commands Regression Task/Commands (with Theia 0.3.14): Running a command is not showing any more the output of the commands #11157 PR Update to Theia version 0.3.14 and updating workspace multi root code eclipse/che-theia-task-plugin#8
• Double click on a editor tab should maximize it (minimizing other views)
• How to stop a Che command (theia task) ?
• Hosted mode: should be able to start hosted instance from a factory action
• Hosted mode: restart should just start if theia-dev is not started. ATM, it pops up an message saying the theia-dev instance is not started ...
• Hosted mode: should define its own workspace root folder: at the moment it is suggesting to open a workspace.
• Yeoman plugin generator: by default create a folder where to generate the files Enhancements on generator eclipse-theia/theia-generator-plugin#10
• Yeoman plugin generator: name provided for 'module name' should be use as it is in module name. ATM it is adding '-plugin' at the end
• Yeoman plugin generator: if no license is specify, it generates "license": "[object Object]" where it shouldn't print any line about license. Enhancements on generator eclipse-theia/theia-generator-plugin#10
• Che Theia commands (tasks) should support ${current.project.eldest.parent.path} substitution Che Theia commands (tasks) should support ${current.project.eldest.parent.path} substitution #11064
• Che Theia commands (tasks) ${current.project.path} is only giving the project folder name, not the complete path /projects/projectname
• Theia should have a view showing all the errors that has been displayed in the error popup dialog (problem when an error occurs and the popup has disappeared.
• Factory should have a kind of loader for progress rather then showing notification. factory loader could be on status bar and showing all the ongoing tasks when clicking on it.
• Rethink where to display preview urls when running a command: the legacy Che IDE were showing it next to the output terminal when running a command which makes sense
• Machine view:
  • polish icons
  • tree items should have name containing urls, not the opposite or a same item with name: url
  • urls should be clickable and user should be able to copy the url
  • why not showing it in the status bar ?
• terminal extension: is it supposed to connect to the terminal of another container ? maybe fixed with Update to new Theia core eclipse/che-theia-terminal-extension#9 but che terminal extension cannot run with theia terminal extension
• if projects are defined in the che workspace config, but do not exist in the workspace, theia should clone the projects
• By default, open Che specific views and file explorer
• How can I set up my custom preferences (.gitconfig, etc ...) to be used from the terminal

Big issues, feature requests

• Build che-theia image from che-theia !!!!
• Would be nice to have named factory id. For instance: sunix/che-theia-in-che-theia
• Run any factory in any of user's Che instances (che.openshift.io, minishift or other). chrome ext ? Chrome / Firefox / Safari / Edge Browser extension #11584
• Code completion in package.json#contribute
• Pull Request panel
• Inject git preferences from che user profile to env variable of terminal
• Pair programming / co-editing

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