@caiopiccirillo thanks for this! I like how you've extended the UI here, but I think it needs one slight change: There is no way to go "edit" the json before invoking it - this is behavior that's been lost from what's currently in place today. E.g. projects: open remote -> + Connect Dev Container should give you a way to edit the json file.

Today (with devcontainer json in only one location):

Your change:

Selecting one of these configurations immediately starts a launch, without giving the user an opportunity to edit the file first. Do you think that can be addressed?

Hi @KyleBarton! I have fixed the behavior of the UI. You'll see the multiple devcontainers and after choosing one of them, you'll have the old UI to edit the file or to go back.

@caiopiccirillo thanks! I actually think there's a bit more to figure out here - whereas projects: open remote gives us the ability to edit the json file (which is good), the toast should be able to open a dev container a bit faster, without providing the additional "edit json" file. I think a slight UI tweak would solve the problem here by changing the modal from two steps to two key codes: e.g. "cmd-enter" to edit the json file and "enter" to open the container. Otherwise, we're building a pretty busy modal.

Would you have time to pair with me on this on Monday? https://calendar.app.google/aDZav1C12cGQXasB7
Ping this thread if the calendar schedule doesn't work - I'm new to using it!

@caiopiccirillo FYI for tomorrow, I'll plan on hanging out in https://zed.dev/channel/dev-containers-11473-28067 - see you there.

@KyleBarton Thanks, see you there!

Things still to do:

• Picker search isn't matching on the right strings yet
• PIcker should display both the dev container name and its path to the user (path should probably be in a lighter/secondary font)
• Picker should match font size with its parent modal (currently looks a bit off)
• Old code paths should be removed now that picker does a bunch of the work for us

@KyleBarton Thanks again for your time today! I have done the changes we've discussed, if there's anything to improve, please let me know 😄

@caiopiccirillo looks great, thanks again for taking this on!