Badge on Explorer is confusing

[zxch3n]

Type: Bug

Currently, the badge is on the file explorer icon.

Is it intentional or a bug? It's very confusing to have a number on this icon. I thought this was a VSCode issue. Only after bisecting I found out this extension causes it.

Extension version: 0.0.216 VS Code version: Code 1.72.2 (d045a5eda657f4d7b676dedbfa7aab8207f8a075, 2022-10-12T22:15:55.763Z) OS version: Darwin arm64 21.6.0 Modes: Sandboxed: No

System Info

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canvas_oop_rasterization: disabled_off
direct_rendering_display_compositor: disabled_off_ok
gpu_compositing: enabled
metal: disabled_off
multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on
opengl: enabled_on
rasterization: enabled
raw_draw: disabled_off_ok
skia_renderer: enabled_on
video_decode: enabled
video_encode: enabled
vulkan: disabled_off
webgl: enabled
webgl2: enabled
webgpu: disabled_off| |Load (avg)|6, 4, 3| |Memory (System)|16.00GB (0.09GB free)| |Process Argv|--crash-reporter-id d4200526-e225-4483-b5e2-ee423130839d| |Screen Reader|yes| |VM|0%|

A/B Experiments

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[PSAGChristian]

I agree - this feature shouldn't be activated by default. Might be nice to have such a featrue it, but it is very confusing because you don't expect this extension to add these badge numbers.

[zjlovezj]

I just found a workaround. To avoid showing badge on Explorer icon, you can drag "TODOS: TREE" from "EXPLORER" / "Primary Side Bar" to "Side Bar". After that, the badge will disappear from Explorer icon and display on TODOs.

[Gruntfuggly]

I didn't realise it would put the badge on the Explorer icon too. That's stupid.

You can also disable the badge in the todo tree settings (todo-tree.general.showActivityBarBadge).

I'll see if there is a way to determine if the tree view is in the explorer pane or not.

[Gruntfuggly]

I've published a new version 0.0.219, which defaults the badge to off. I've put a note in the README about putting the badge on the Explorer icon. I haven't found a way to determine if the view is in the Explorer pane yet. 😞

[mustafaabobakr]