Scan your .code-workspace files and open them in one click from the Activity Bar and the Status Bar. Clicking an entry opens that workspace in a new VSCode window by default.
Features
Activity Bar panel — A "Workspaces" view in the side bar lists every workspace found under your root folders. Click a row to open it in a new window; use the inline action to open it in the current window.
Status Bar button — A Workspaces button in the Status Bar opens a Quick Pick to search and jump to any workspace.
Recently Used section — When you have more workspaces than lastUsedWorkspaceCount, the list splits into Recently Used and All, so the workspaces you switch to most are always at the top.
Per-workspace colored icons — Tint a workspace's icon with any hex color via a single setting in its .code-workspace file.
Focused scanning — Only .code-workspace files are listed (including those inside git repositories). Folders like node_modules, dist, out, .next, target, and .git are skipped automatically, and symlinked directories are not followed.
Configuration
Setting
Default
Description
workspaceSwitcher.rootFolders
["~/Developer"]
Root folders to scan. ~ expands to the home directory.
workspaceSwitcher.maxDepth
4
Maximum scan depth from each root folder.
workspaceSwitcher.ignoreFolders
[]
Additional folder names to skip during scanning.
workspaceSwitcher.iconColor
""
Hex color for this workspace's icon in the list. Usually set per-workspace in the .code-workspace file.
workspaceSwitcher.lastUsedWorkspaceCount
3
Number of recently opened workspaces shown under "Recently Used". When the total exceeds this value, the list splits into "Recently Used" and "All"; otherwise a single flat list is shown. Set to 0 to disable sectioning.
Per-workspace icon color
To give a workspace a colored icon in the list, add a hex color to the settings block of its .code-workspace file:
Only the icon is tinted — the name never changes. When no color is set, a theme-aware default layers icon is used.
Usage
Activity Bar: Open the Workspaces view from the side bar. Click a row to open it in a new window; use the inline action to open it in the current window.
Status Bar: Click the Workspaces button to open a Quick Pick, then type to filter and press Enter to open.
Refresh: Use the refresh icon in the view title to re-scan. The list also refreshes automatically when relevant settings change.
