Settings: Show modified makes editing workspace/folder setting more cumbersome

[octref]

#50496

Currently, the flow of working with workspace/folder settings has been

• Go to workspace settings (json)
• I can immediately see which settings are changed
  • If I want to change existing settings, I can find them easily
  • If I want to add new setting, I can use IntelliSense to search

However with the GUI, I lose some of the benefits:

• I can no longer immediately see which settings are being changed when I go to workspace settings
• I need to click "Show modified only" to change them
• Now if I want to change a setting that's not being modified yet, I need to toggle "Show modified only" off again. Otherwise the setting won't even show up in search.
• After I make the change, I still can't see all changed settings in a glance.

I suggest having a "Modified" section on top of all sections in workspace/folder settings.

[roblourens]

I suggest having a "Modified" section on top of all sections in workspace/folder settings.

Not a bad idea.

Otherwise, I would just persist the "show modified only" state, and also the checkbox would not impact search (it's supposed to work this way already, that's a bug)

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