vscode: Tasks: Please do not reveal a panel on startup

I opened a multi root workspace where vscode-docs is in and got this:

Running this command from the command line does not return an error:

It would be great if we could stay away from opening the panel just like that. We already have enough spam from notifications.

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Created 6 years ago
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Comments: 18 (18 by maintainers)

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Don't show the output panel in jake and grunt extensions Fixes #64900 — committed to microsoft/vscode by alexr00 6 years ago

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Question: is this something we need to tell our extension authors too? E.g. are there extensions that open the panel to notify about something similar to what we do with our built in extensions? Or is this actually coming from our tasks code itself?

This is coming from our built in extension, not from the tasks code. If there are task providers showing the output we need to ask them to show a notification instead.

Showing the output channel is too agressive and showing a notification is too aggressive. We actually only do this in the gulp extension, nowhere else. I’ve changed it into a warning notification that directs you to see the output. This will also be helped by https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/64355 which I’ll be doing next. If, after this fix and the one for https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/64355 tasks are still too noisy we can find some other options.

alexr00 on Dec 14, 2018