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[Preference]: Add show modified settings menu-item

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#8,252 opened on Jul 28, 2020

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Description

Like VSCode, we can implement a Show Modified Settings in the preference UI, which would allow the users to have a list of all the preference values updated by them.

In VSCode. modified

modify

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Research direction
Look at the preference UI implementation in theia/packages/preferences/src/browser/. Identify the component that renders the settings tree and add a filter or view mode for modified settings. Follow patterns from VSCode's implementation.
Tech stack
typescript
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frontenddeveloper experience
Issue type
Feature
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2
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Half day
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Active
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Clear
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TypeScriptReactTheia extension development
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65