VS Code - NRF Connect Extension --> Welcome page not showing

RE: VS Code - NRF Connect Extension --> Welcome page not showing

Domi471 — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 12:55:29 GMT

Thank you for your response, your advice worked! But still I switched back to an earlier version of the nrf connect for vs code extension, as the creation of applications is also working there and without the little but still overhead.
Kind regards,
Dom

RE: VS Code - NRF Connect Extension --> Welcome page not showing

Sigurd Hellesvik — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 14:47:45 GMT

[quote user="Domi471"]Yes, I am still missing the welcome menu, as at creating a new application, I liked the "browser" view of the website with information about the searched application.[/quote]

As a design choice, we have decided to remove this. You can read a bit about why at RE: VS code nrf connect create a new application .

[quote user="Domi471"]And when choosing a sample application to start with and folder to store it, I am now required to have a git account (which I think was not required previously), so I am now getting "Author identity unknown" altough VS Code could just copy the sample from ncs folder (as in the previous NRF Connect version) if I am correct?[/quote]

I do not beleive you must have a git account here. Try to remove the .git folder in the newly created folder. Does that help?

I have reported this to our VS Code team and suggested a setting to disable the automatic git integration.

RE: VS Code - NRF Connect Extension --> Welcome page not showing

Sigurd Hellesvik — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 14:37:28 GMT

I am checking on both of your comments/questions and will return to you when I have found out.

RE: VS Code - NRF Connect Extension --> Welcome page not showing

Domi471 — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 12:44:08 GMT

Yes, I am still missing the welcome menu, as at creating a new application, I liked the "browser" view of the website with information about the searched application.

And when choosing a sample application to start with and folder to store it, I am now required to have a git account (which I think was not required previously), so I am now getting "Author identity unknown" altough VS Code could just copy the sample from ncs folder (as in the previous NRF Connect version) if I am correct?

RE: VS Code - NRF Connect Extension --> Welcome page not showing

Sigurd Hellesvik — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 12:32:06 GMT

No worries, I am happy that I was able to answer your question.
We are here to help you after all.

Did you figure out what you wanted to use the welcome menu for in this new update?
(I assume you were looking for some functionality in it)

RE: VS Code - NRF Connect Extension --> Welcome page not showing

Domi471 — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 10:24:44 GMT

Thank you for your response, and sorry for calling my finding a "problem" 😅.

Kind regards,

Dom

RE: VS Code - NRF Connect Extension --> Welcome page not showing

Sigurd Hellesvik — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 09:16:23 GMT

This is a change in the newest version of the nRF Connect SDK for VS Code extension.

See https://nrfconnect.github.io/vscode-nrf-connect/release_notes/connect/2023.9.169.html#welcome-view

Regards,
Sigurd Hellesvik

RE: VS Code - NRF Connect Extension --> Welcome page not showing

Domi471 — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 11:32:00 GMT

Update, on my previous notebook, now is the same problem.