Selective enabling and connection details persistence

[theseeker58]

Users

• Development manager tasked with ensuring a team is successful in using streaming data
• Developer on a team tasked with building new features using streaming data
• Developer at an org who manages a streaming platform while building new features that use streaming data
• Developer tasked with building pipelines for use in business analytics
• Other: [User type] tasked with [primary goal in the realm of streaming data]

Problems

1.The extension can be only enabled globally
2.Disconnection force to re-enter connection details

Solutions

1.Enable the extension also selectively on a per-workspace basis
2.Persist connection details so that it can be reconnected without re-entering details

Goals

1.Make the extension more useful

Non-Goals

Background

The alternative is Kadeck that is not integrated in VS Code

Proposal

I don't know

[Dave Shoup (shouples)]

theseeker58 is this for the Confluent Cloud connection, or do you see disconnects for other connection types (local Docker, "direct" connections, etc)?