Extension Uninstall not behaving as expected regarding local or remote uninstall

[thernstig]

Steps to Reproduce

(originally reported in #207724)

1. Uninstall an extension from the local view (greyed out) by clicking it and selecting Uninstall (screenshot 1),
2. It then shows it being uninstalled both in the local view, remote view and in the extension info window itself (screenshot 2).
3. Reload VS Code.
4. Now it shows it in the local view, but not in the remote view. And in the extension window itself one is able to click Uninstall again (screenshot 3).

This makes no sense as it was uninstalled in screenshot 2. It should have been gone completely and screenshot 3 should never have shown it.

Screenshot 1

Screenshot 2

Screenshot 3

Solution proposal

@sandy081 asked me to open an issue #207724 (comment):

I can see the confusion here. Opening an extension always opens the active one. In this case the extension on the remote one was opened. But I agree it should open the extension that user clicks on. Can you please file a separate issue for this so that we can track this separately.

My recommendation though would possibly be that the actual Uninstall button and its dropdown should be improved. There are a few options:

1. Have the button default uninstall both locally and remotely.
2. Have it say Uninstall (local) or Uninstall (remote: remote_name_here) so people know where it is uninstalled.
3. No matter 1) or 2), add drop-down items to the menu to uninstall from other places than the default button action.

VS Code version: Code 1.88.1 (e170252, 2024-04-10T17:41:02.734Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045
Modes:
Remote OS version: Linux x64 5.4.0-177-generic

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1245U (12 x 2496)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled canvas_oop_rasterization: enabled_on direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on opengl: enabled_on rasterization: enabled raw_draw: disabled_off_ok skia_graphite: disabled_off video_decode: enabled video_encode: enabled vulkan: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled webgpu: enabled
Load (avg)	undefined
Memory (System)	31.64GB (16.73GB free)
Process Argv	--crash-reporter-id 59df0552-792a-4e7c-92f1-327caa3dd76d
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

Item	Value
Remote	SSH: vm
OS	Linux x64 5.4.0-177-generic
CPUs	Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6148 CPU @ 2.40GHz (8 x 2394)
Memory (System)	31.32GB (25.69GB free)
VM	21%

Extensions (40)

Extension	Author (truncated)	Version
yang	mar	0.1.3
jupyter-keymap	ms-	1.1.2
remote-containers	ms-	0.354.0
remote-ssh	ms-	0.110.1
remote-ssh-edit	ms-	0.86.0
remote-wsl	ms-	0.88.0
vscode-remote-extensionpack	ms-	0.25.0
remote-explorer	ms-	0.4.3
remote-server	ms-	1.5.1
vscode-openapi	42C	4.25.3
lit-html	bie	1.11.1
markdown-preview-github-styles	bie	2.0.4
vscode-fish	bma	1.0.38
ruff	cha	2024.20.0
vale-vscode	chr	0.19.0
vscode-markdownlint	Dav	0.55.0
vscode-eslint	dba	2.4.4
gitlens	eam	14.9.1
prettier-vscode	esb	10.4.0
code-runner	for	0.12.2
go	gol	0.41.4
path-autocomplete	ion	1.25.0
restructuredtext	lex	190.3.0
vscode-azureresourcegroups	ms-	0.8.6
vscode-cosmosdb	ms-	0.21.0
vscode-docker	ms-	1.29.0
vscode-kubernetes-tools	ms-	1.3.16
debugpy	ms-	2024.4.0
python	ms-	2024.4.1
vscode-pylance	ms-	2024.4.1
azure-account	ms-	0.11.6
vscode-thunder-client	ran	2.21.15
vscode-yaml	red	1.14.0
vscode-direnv	Rub	0.0.2
code-spell-checker	str	3.0.1
vscode-stylelint	sty	1.4.0
even-better-toml	tam	0.19.2
shellcheck	tim	0.37.1
simple-rst	tro	1.5.4
vscode-proto3	zxh	0.5.5

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