Adds a button that opens a custom quick pick of recent workspaces and lets you choose where the button lives (status bar or action bar of the Explorer view).

The picker also includes a final action to choose a .code-workspace file directly from disk.

Picker

Settings

Setting	Values	Default
`pickRecentWorkspace.position`	`statusBar`, `explorer`, `both`	`statusBar`
`pickRecentWorkspace.icon`	`codicon`, `lucide`	`codicon`
`pickRecentWorkspace.showPath`	`true`, `false`	`false`
`pickRecentWorkspace.sortOrder`	`mostRecent`, `alphabetical`	`mostRecent`

Positions

statusBar — far left of the status bar.
explorer — actions toolbar of the Explorer view.
both — status bar and Explorer view toolbar.

Icons

codicon — a custom Codicon-style glyph.
lucide — a Lucide glyph.

Path visibility

false — show only workspace names in the picker.
true — also show the path of the folder containing each workspace.

Sort order

mostRecent — keep VS Code recent history order (newest first).
alphabetical — sort entries alphabetically by workspace name.

You can also toggle sort order directly from the picker header button (top-right), which updates this setting.

Commands

Recent Workspace: Open Recent Workspace... (pickRecentWorkspace.open)

Picker actions

Recent workspace entries are shown under Recent workspaces.
Selecting a workspace opens it in the current window.
Hovering an entry reveals an Open in New Window button that opens that workspace in a new window.
Open from File... opens a file picker for .code-workspace files.

Development

npm install
npm run build:icons   # regenerates media/pick-recent-workspace.woff
npm run compile

Then press F5 to launch the extension host.

The icon font is generated by scripts/build-icon-font.js from media/codicon-icon.svg and media/lucide-icon.svg. Icon fonts only support filled contours, so stroked SVG geometry is expanded into round-capped polygons and rings before converting to WOFF.