Overview

This issue aims to explore what adding "profiles" could look like in the product. These profiles can be used in education, presentations, or can even be language specific. The explorations should cover being able to setup and switch between profiles. Ideally these profiles should be synced with Settings Sync (if used) so you can use those profiles anywhere.

One idea for settings is to introduce a new settings object like:

{
    "profiles": {
        "demos": {
            "files.autoSave": "onFocusChange",
            "editor.fontSize": 18,
            "editor.tabSize": 2,
            "editor.fontWeight": "600",
            "screencastMode.enabled": true,
        }
    },
    
    "editor.fontFamily": "Cascadia Code",
    "editor.renderWhitespace": "all",
}

The "Demos" profile inherits the current settings a user has and adds additional settings on top of the current ones. Also, when profiles are enabled we will create a "Default" profile where the user can switch back to their default mode.

Related issues

• Screencast Mode only settings Screencast Mode only settings #105226
• Sync mutliple settings profiles Sync mutliple settings profiles #92393
• Multiple environment profiles (either per-session or per-window) Multiple environment profiles (either per-session or per-window) #57548
• User profile User profile #53453
• Enable/disable extensions from config file Feature Request: Enable/disable extensions from config file #40239
• Local Workspace settings [Feature] Local Workspace settings #40233
• Support "perspectives" like approach in VSCode Support "perspectives" like approach in VSCode  #95182