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Remove standalone launch timer and use status items to better communicate state

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby, vscode

Research direction

Start by reading discussion 3642 and locating the standalone launch timer and existing language status item behavior. Review how the VS Code client reports LSP state and progress. Done means removing the standalone timer and communicating standalone, degraded, and progress states through one status item.

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Description

enhancement pinned

Concrete task derived from https://github.com/Shopify/ruby-lsp/discussions/3642.

We originally added a timer for the standalone launch mode because we were getting repeated issues about monorepo configurations that didn't have VS Code's multi-root workspace configs. That ended up being an overcorrection and we can make this a lot more subtle with a status item.

Note: I've been thinking about how the state of the LSP should probably be promoted to a proper status item (as opposed to a language status item). It often includes important information, like whether we're running in degraded mode due to Bundler failures or if it's in standalone.

We can also override onProgress on the client to show progress inside of the same status item, avoiding clutter on the bar. I think it might be worth taking a look at this as part of addressing the timer issue.

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