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Provide an option to hide the activity bar #1105
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@daviwil you can hide it already from the View menu or do you mean a permanent option? How would you then be using search, git, debug etc? |
+1 for this. I would say that being able to hide any distracting/unused UI elements being one of the appeal factors with the highly configurable non-IDE code editors (which I presume is the category Code is targeting). As a side note, is there any way to vote on the feature requests? I'm pretty sure this is not the way to do it. I tried to look for tips on the submitting bugs and feature requests page but didn't find any guidelines on this. |
@ristomatti Here are our guidelines which are work in progress, to be honest we haven't fully settled on how to separate a discussion inside github issues and usevoice |
@egamma Thanks! I didn't previously notice the User Voice header being a link. I've now registered there and will vote for the issues there as it seems to make more sense than commenting here. Maybe it would be a good idea to try to settle on one service that could be used for both feature requests (voting etc.) and bugs/issues? That could greatly simplify managing these. |
My Band-Aid was opening the developer tools every time I open the editor and deleting the parent div (ID: workbench.parts.activitybar ) then just toggle the side-bar on and off to let the UI re-align the div positions. The long term solution would be a bar button similar to the "Show Desktop button on a Windows taskbar" on the far left of blue status bar in the editor next to the extensions icon or a workspace settings you can force in the settings.json file ("window.activitybar" : false)? |
Implementation suggestion: Now that there's an option under the View menu to Toggle Status Bar, add another option for Toggle Activity Bar or similar to match. |
Looking forward to this feature. Would love to use this space for something more important :) Maybe it could be also configurable via settings:
where
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To add to this: I think it would also be nice to be able to right-click on the bar to see the option to hide it (with the hotkey listed so you can remember how to quickly bring it back). |
So, is it going to be implement? |
+1 option to hide this would be super... |
+1. I hope there is an option to allow to hide the view bar. |
The sidebar icons and bottom bar are the only things stopping me from using vscode instead of atom |
@nikhildaga You can change the visibility of the bottom bar by going to View > Hide/Show Status Bar or by setting |
Looking forward to seeing this feature being implemented. Thanks all. |
This landed with the new setting Thanks @golf1052 👍 |
I would suggest to add the setting (like it's working now) but when you set |
@wallverb there is an entry in the menu as well as a command to toggle 👍 @cybertim I like the idea but I think this needs another option because not everyone might want to ever see the activity bar? |
@bpasero that is true, but isn't 'coupling' the activitybar from the sidebar making the sidebar less functional, since it also shows a quick overview of what other activities need attention (like updates for the extensions). |
@cybertim I do not know how people see the activity bar. For many it may just be a toolbar or menu that they want to turn off. That is totally valid (like turning off the top level menu). I like your suggestion though with having multiple settings, though the toggle action would probably still just hide it for good. |
@bpasero I can only speak for myself, but I see the activityBar as a whole, like tabs, for the SideBar. That is why I thought it would feel more natural to hide/show the activityBar combined with the sideBar. |
If we could have something like
then @cybertim use case would be handled |
I suggest to open individual issues for requests that are now coming up. They are otherwise lost in this closed work item. |
+1 |
is the workbench.activityBar.visible available in the latest stable release. I can't get it working, so maybe i am doing something wrong |
@magneticz Its only in Insiders currently, but will be available in the next stable release this month. |
Should have an "auto-hide" option (shows on mouse hover) |
@rafaelbdb an 1px wide sidebar with resize on mouse hover would be great, something like that might help: .sidebar {
width: 1px;
transition: width 0.5s ease; /* for smooth show/hide */
}
.sidebar:hover {
width: 25px;
} or in js so: sidebar.onmouseover = _widen;
sidebar.onmouseout = _shrink;
sidebar.style.transition = "width 0.5s ease";
function _widen(event) {
sidebar.style.width = 25;
}
function _shrink(event) {
sidebar.style.width = 1;
} |
Since the activity-bar and side-bar are closely related, what about using a single command "Toggle Side-Bar" or "Switch Side-Bar", with a single shortcut like Cmd-B, which cycled through either (a) Both on or Both off (my preference) or (b) the 4 combinations: off-off, off-on, on-off, on-on? |
I'd like to be able to hide the workspace button bar on the left side of the window to gain some more screen real estate and have a more text-focused experience. Users of Sublime Text and Atom may also be interested in this setting.
cc @guillermooo
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