Powershell extension should not be noisy when it activates

[connor4312]

System Details

• Operating system: Win 10
• VS Code version: 1.55 Insiders
• PowerShell extension: 2021.2.1

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### VSCode version: 1.55.0-insider c185983a683d14c396952dd432459097bc7f757f x64

### VSCode extensions:
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### PSES version: 2.3.0.0

### PowerShell version:

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.0.3
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.0.3
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.19042
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

Issue Description

1. With everything on its default settings, open a new empty folder
2. Do something that triggers activation. In my case: in Debug view, click create a launch.json file
3. The powershell extension opens a terminal on activation, which makes the quickpick disappear. It also gives a notification that I don't care about (because I'm not doing anything with powershell at the moment.)

Expected Behaviour

I don't want to be interrupted here. I want to use the powershell on certain projects and it should never get in my way when I don't want it to. In this case I was going to debug a JavaScript project in a project that didn't have any .ps1 files in the workspace/anything that would indicate I wanted to do something with powershell.

It also prompts me with a notification when this happens, which is again also quite annoying. One option would be for me to globally disable the extension and only re-enable it in select workspaces, or dig through the settings to figure out which ones to toggle in order to disable this behavior, but in this case I ended up uninstalling the extension since I do involved powershell work very rarely.

Actual Behaviour

Terminals and notifications pop up.

The gif doesn't capture it, but the configuration quickpick popped up briefly before the powershell terminal opening dismissed it.

[andyleejordan]

Thanks for the suggestion! Looks like you have a workaround for now. I agree we can make some improvements on the "noise" here.