Package Details: code-features 1.89.0-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/code-features.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: code-features
Description: Unblock some features in Code OSS
Upstream URL: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode
Keywords: vscode
Licenses: unknown
Conflicts: code-features
Provides: code-features
Submitter: sainnhe
Maintainer: sainnhe
Last Packager: sainnhe
Votes: 52
Popularity: 0.22
First Submitted: 2021-04-06 00:46 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2024-05-07 07:34 (UTC)

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sainnhe commented on 2024-05-17 03:39 (UTC) (edited on 2024-05-17 03:39 (UTC) by sainnhe)

About this package

This package installs a hook that will patch product.json every time the code package is updated. The patch basically does the following:

  1. Syncs proposed APIs with the latest vscode release. Some extensions don't work in code oss because some specific APIs are not enabled in product.json.
  2. Enable built-in settings sync feature.
  3. Disable telemetry.
  4. Use ~/.vscode and ~/.Code instead of ~/.vscode-oss and ~/.Code OSS.

You might be confused why this package changes the data directory. There are two reasons:

  1. Some extensions (e.g. Pylance) require to use the data directory to work.
  2. Isolate settings sync data from the OSS version. People may want to install this package because they want to unlock some proprietary extensions, and may have some specific settings that only works with these extensions. Besides, this package will enable built-in sync feature, so isolating the settings may avoid some potential problems such as messing up your synced settings.

If you don't like this behavior, simply create a symlink.

About the maintainance

I'm a vim user, and I rarely use vscode. I created this package simply for fun. And for some reasons, I'm not using Arch Linux as my daily driver anymore.

I'll continue to maintain this package for a while until my old Arch Linux machine retires. If you want to become a maintainer of this package, feel free to contact me (i@sainnhe.dev).

Updating the package is very simple, you just need to run update.py in the root of this repository. The script will automatically update patch.json which contains the patch data.

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sainnhe commented on 2022-05-05 12:53 (UTC)

@jongeduard: Thanks! It should be fixed now.

GFdevelop commented on 2022-04-20 08:37 (UTC)

ERR command 'liveshare.startFromWelcomeContent' not found: Error: command 'liveshare.startFromWelcomeContent' not found

Package or extension error?

jongeduard commented on 2022-04-15 18:52 (UTC) (edited on 2022-04-15 18:54 (UTC) by jongeduard)

"Writing login information to the keychain failed with error 'GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files'."

Since very recently I haved been seeing this error in Code OSS. A bit of searching around made me clear that I NEED to have gnome-keyring. Otherwise this error is the result. And 'pacman -Qi' shows that gnome-keyring is an optional dependency of code-features, while not being any dependency of code itself or code-marketplace. And indeed installing gnome-keyring fixes the issue. (I've may have had gnome-keyring before as a depencency of other packages, but things change and a 'pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qdtq)' that I run regularly may have removed it as currently no other package on my system seems to need it anymore - I use Xfce, not GNOME anyway.)

So: Why is gnome-keyring an defined as an optional depencency for this package while it should be a required one??

sainnhe commented on 2022-03-10 12:46 (UTC)

My bad. Sync should be fixed now.

sainnhe commented on 2022-03-09 08:26 (UTC) (edited on 2022-03-09 08:26 (UTC) by sainnhe)

Looks like sync no longer works in 1.65.1, does anyone manage to get it work?

barraponto commented on 2021-11-30 19:27 (UTC) (edited on 2021-11-30 19:38 (UTC) by barraponto)

Sync works, marketplace doesn't. (YES IT DOES)

UPDATE: silly me should have installed code-marketplace too.

billypilgrim commented on 2021-11-30 18:33 (UTC)

This isn't working for me at the mo. I still can't access the marketplace.

sainnhe commented on 2021-10-13 06:38 (UTC)

@huantian: Isn't it already depending on it?

huantian commented on 2021-10-13 03:41 (UTC)

Perhaps this package should be marked as depending on Code OSS, as it fails to install without it?

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