Position configuration

[irvnriir]

Would be great to add ability to move the toolbar to "menubar", because the current position at bottom is bit too far and wastes time on reaching it (i know the "menubar" have the commands in "view" category, but putting them as open buttons would save time on clicking, best would be to position the toolbar on top of the "side panel", but i don't know if its difficult)

[Gruntfuggly]

Do you mean at the top right? I'm not sure if it's possible, but I'll have a look...

[irvnriir]

@Gruntfuggly At top left in my setup ("{ on top of the "side panel" }" is no some already existing bar, its about adding new one to the main interface), thanks for the attention :)

[Gruntfuggly]

If it requires adding a new bar then it's not possible I'm afraid. Vscode only allows limited customisation to the GUI. I was thinking of adding buttons to the top right toolbar, but that would require creating new svg icons - the activity bar is the only thing that supports octicons.

[irvnriir]

@Gruntfuggly Well its open source electron app, so "not possible" is not really applicable here, and 1 my known coder told that "extensions" can modify it up to core, same as in atom, question is only in amount of work/{needed time} :)

[Gruntfuggly]

activitusbar is a vscode extension - it's built on the API provided by vscode. Extensions have no access to the core application - it is the main difference between vscode and Atom.

Please feel free to open an issue with vscode itself.

Alternatively, if it's that easy, you could fork the code and do it yourself? :wink:

[irvnriir]

@Gruntfuggly thanks for info, thats sad and weird, well, in this case, guess 1st level in menubar would be the most ergonomic place ([.. help explorer search ..], if it can be edited with extension of course)

p.s. Technically "not possible" still not correct without "by extension" :) Do not understand why atom are not actively enhanced if vs code so limited. What may i said that could mean that its easy?

[Gruntfuggly]

It's definitely a different approach from Atom and vscode - I think Microsoft want to keep tighter control of the look and feel though.

I was just suggesting that you could have a go yourself - extensions for vscode are actually pretty easy to write. There's loads of documentation and a good community on slack (vscode-dev-community.slack.com) for help. You could fork activitusbar and try modifying it to get it to do what you want, or start from one of the tutorials. Contributing to vscode itself is a bit more tricky though - and I still think it would need a change to create a different toolbar. 😞

[irvnriir]

@Gruntfuggly i'm not so active with VS Code to look into it, what about the "menubar"?, also maybe it could be possible to insert the actions as always visible listbox items in each sidebar's tree(explorer, SCM, ..). the trees (or at least some of them) should be modifiable according to "Favorites" extension.

[Gruntfuggly]

When you say menubar, do you mean adding buttons to the actual main menu? I don't think this is possible either - I think the only place that would get close to what you're after is the editor title menubar.

Have a look here for what's possible: https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/contribution-points

I think it might be possible to add them to all the tree views, but that would put a lot of buttons on each one without much control over positioning.

I'll have a go at putting them in the title bar and see what it comes out like...

[irvnriir]

as i saw somewhere, in VS Code the "title menubar" is the "menubar". the tree views idea do require certain position control abilities (if there is not enough, guess that idea won't work), but i do not think 4-5 buttons/items is alot :) thanks for attention and wish you luck :)

[Gruntfuggly]

I don't think I am ever going to get round to doing this and I don't think it really makes sense as part of this extension - this one is about recreating the buttons in the status bar, so putting them elsewhere would be a bit odd. It might be useful as a separate extension though.