feedback: easier login path for Positron

[SamEdwardes]

Version

Code - OSS Version: 1.92.0

Areas for Improvement

• UI/UX
• Onboarding
• Docs
• Chat
• Commands
• Context
• Response Quality
• Other

What needs to be improved? Please describe how this affects the user experience and include a screenshot.

I am using Positron, which as an IDE built off a VS Code fork (https://github.com/posit-dev/positron). The sign in process is a bit tricky:

• Signing with GitHub does not work because users get redirected to VS Code.
• Signing in with "Enterprise Instance" does work, but it is not intuitive.
  • Click "Sign In to Your Enterprise Instance"
  • "Sign in with URL and access token"
  • Use https://sourcegraph.com as the URL
  • Enter your access token

Describe the solution you'd like to see

Option 1

• Support for logging in via GitHub

Option 2

• When I am using VS Code on a server, the login experience is a bit better, I get this menu of options:

• I would be helpful to have a similar experience on VS Code forks.

Describe any alternatives that could be considered

No response

Additional context

Positron info:

Positron Version: 2024.09.0 (Universal) build 27
Code - OSS Version: 1.92.0
Commit: d996153f3be6bcc9af460300e61103425323b973
Date: 2024-09-11T02:38:46.408Z (5 days ago)
Electron: 30.1.2
Chromium: 124.0.6367.243
Node.js: 20.14.0
V8: 12.4.254.20-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 23.5.0

Note this is similar to issue #4708 I previously raised.