This is a reopening of the closed issue #223149 solely focused on the first part of the request: allowing profiles to be pinned to the Windows Taskbar or macOS Dock. That issue was closed because the second part of the feature request was satisfied, but the first part has not been implemented.

Especially in light of Azure Data Studio being retired with all of that functionality going into VS Code instead, VS Code is starting to be a bit too heavyweight for my use all in one profile. I was able to create a new profile just for SQL use, and that works well... except for it just being another window in the same macOS dock icon/app. As more and more functionality gets put into VS Code, users will likely be drawn to use Profiles more to keep functionality and workspaces separate.

I would like the option (I am totally okay with this being disabled by default) to have my SQL profile be a separate dock icon, ideally with i.e. a sub-icon badge of the profile's icon (in my case, the database icon). In macOS, this should be a separate "app" too, so that command-Tab switches between my profiles (instead of command-Backtick to switch between windows within the same app).

Per the original request, this should be supported on the Windows Taskbar as well.