Github Copilot

[mikebronner]

I'm trying to get copilot nightly to work in the activitusbar, but its package.json does not have any views or view container. Any thoughts on how to handle that?

[Gruntfuggly]

If it doesn't have any views what did you want the button to do? You could assign a command to the button?

[mikebronner]

I was hoping to open the copilot GPT chat panel (this is new in beta). It does allow for assigning keyboard shortcuts to it:

Is there a way I can take advantage of that?

Update: this ended up opening the panel, but wouldn't show as active panel in Activitusbar:

    {
      "name": "command.workbench.panel.interactiveSession.view.copilot.focus",
      "codicon": "octoface"
    },

Good enough work-around for now, but would be awesome to see if there's a way to get the active panel indication to work down the road. :)

Thanks for all your work on this @Gruntfuggly

Update 2: after the most recent update today (8 Jun 2023), the command now is:

        {
            "name": "command.workbench.panel.chatSidebar.copilot",
            "codicon": "octoface"
        },

Still no proper view that I could find.

[battaglia01]

command.workbench.panel.chat.view.copilot.focus is slightly better as it actually focuses the sidebar.

[zxmaster]

Following two for GitHub's Copilot Labs and Chat:

"activitusbar.views": [
  {
     "name": "command.workbench.view.extension.copilot-labs",
     "codicon": "beaker",
  },
  {
     "name": "command.workbench.panel.chat.view.copilot.focus",
     "codicon": "octoface"
  }
]

*(optional) Toggle Primary Side Bar Visibility:

"activitusbar.views": [
  {
    "name": "command.workbench.action.toggleSidebarVisibility",
    "codicon": "list-flat"
  }
]

[battaglia01]

Thanks, that's great. Also there's

"activitusbar.views": [
  {
    "name": "workbench.action.toggleAuxiliaryBar",
    "codicon": "list-flat"
  }
]

if you have Copilot on the right sidebar.

Is there some way to get it to focus the chat if the sidebar is closed, and toggle it if it's open?