Live Share guest session flow with restricted workspaces

Version: 1.57.0-insider (user setup) Commit: 4f3d865a6b46a4ead49cf83fe1c30d95d0a34220 Date: 2021-05-31T05:14:38.041Z

Start a Collaboration Session on another computer On your machine have Live Share installed and try to join the session.

a open an new empty window. b Live share Join Session can not be found as it requires workspace trust. c. Trust the empty workspace. The Join Session is still not available as Live Share is still disabled, no explanation d. reload the window makes the window untrusted again (also reported in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/124824) e. open a trusted window to get the Live Share commands f. Join the session g. new window opens, with root rendered red.

• The banner is very subtle here. It took me while to understand why the root node in the explorer is red
• I’m forced to trust the workspace

Looks like Live Share has not yet adopted the untrustedWorkspaces capability.

[lszomoru]

c is a bug. If you have trusted the empty window, the empty window should transition from restricted mode to a trusted window and all extensions should be enabled. d is expected since the trust state is for the session, and not for all empty windows. We are considering making it easier to trust all empty windows.

[tamuratak]

We are starting supporting PDF files preview through Live Share sessions because the filesystem provided by Live Share v1.0.5196 supports binary files.

• James-Yu/LaTeX-Workshop/pull/3008

It works though some tweaks still needed on Live Share’s side.

• MicrosoftDocs/live-share/issues/4540

My main concern is that it is difficult for users to find how to enable LaTeX Workshop on the guest’s side. Users have to trust the workspace. However, the dialog to ask users to trust it doesn’t pop up when joining the session on the guest’s side.