Allow to open multiple workspaces in the same window

[kdubuc]

Workspace feature is great because we can grouping projects in a top context (microservices projects in a big API workspace). But, only one workspace can be open. This feature can be powerful if multiple workspaces can be open at the same time (in the same window).

And another request : it will be great if :

• Right click on the workspace name should open menu with a "settings" item (which open xxxx.code-workspace).
• Workspace settings should contain a name attribute (to clearly identify the workspace in the left pane in VS Code)

[amandaporto]

Agree, this functionality is really lacking. Working with multiple repos/folders where you want to keep a certain separation from one another (while maintaining easy access) is a bit of a pain right now.

[develleoper]

To clarify, this story is specifically not relating to multi-root workspaces, but rather requesting the ability to display multiple separate workspaces within the same OS window, correct? Asking because I noticed the github issue has the #multi-root label, which I believe may be inaccurate.

[zbentley]

@develleoper that was my assumption as well, and the duplicate issue that was closed in favor of this one also seems to indicate that. I'm not the reporter though.

[MikeChipshop]

Seconding (and the rest!) this.

The ability to have collapsible Workspace folders open in the app at the same time would be a godsend. Currently I'm having to negate this by adding different folders to the initial workspace, but this is far from ideal.

Having the ability to have multiple workspaces open at once would make this an absolute project management powerhouse!

[mookman288]

From a new user perspective, this was my step-by-step experience:

1. Create new workspace.
2. Attempt to rename the workspace to . This failed (see @kdubuc second request.)
3. Add all of the projects for that particular client to this workspace.
4. Attempt to create a second workspace for a different client. This failed.

Coming from Eclipse, my first instinct is to be able to create individual project folders for each project, and I organized that by heading. I agree with @MikeChipshop that multiple workspaces open at once would increase project management utility.

[siran]

I second the proposal.

[coffeeislife12]

I am working with python and I don't want to share my python virtualenv between each project (folders) inside a workspace. As python interpreter setting is applied to a workspace, I need the ability to have multiple workspaces show up in single vscode instance(screen) for better management

[zjp]

The UI makes this idea very intuitive. Before googling how to do this, I thought it was already built-in.