Allow extensions to contribute to the VS Code welcome page

[eamodio]

Refs: #93604

@alefragnani Can you provide more details on what you are looking for here?

[alefragnani]

Hi @eamodio ,

Sure, I was talking about #63152, created by @misolori to explore improvements in the Welcome Page. I added this comment, asking to be able to contribute to some sections in the Welcome Page.

Is there any chance (or had any conversation about) allow extensions to contribute to certain sections of the Welcome Page?

I mean, my Project Manager extension allows the user to define Favorite Projects and would be nice to have this list available right from the start in the Welcome Page. This could appear near the Recent section.

There are also some extension that almost makes VS Code a new IDE, like the Java/Python extension. These extensions could add their new kinds of projects/files in the Start section.

Even the Help section could receive contribution from extension.

The idea is the extension contributes / provide additional info, not replace the VS Code contents. So the users still gets all the current help/features/support from VS Code, and after extending VS Code with new extensions, the start up would also be improved.

I found a few others issues which requests other improvements/customizations to the Welcome Page as well, like #63057 And #67600.

Thank you

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