Status bar indicator is too "busy".

[grigorig]

While editing code, the clangd status bar indicator constantly switches between "idle", "file is queued", "parsing includes" and so on. Meanwhile, the rest of the status bar contents jumps around wildly because the length of those message varies. This is very irritating to me. The status bar indicator should have a fixed length and maybe the number of different states shown should be turned down.

[njames93]

Right click on the status bar and you can hide clangd status.

[grigorig]

Okay, but it would still be nice to have some indication of what clangd is doing, maybe something simple like displaying an icon if it's not idle.

It looks like fixed-width status bar cannot be achieve with current VSCode APIs, but here's my suggestion for a "less busy" indicator:

• Move the status bar item into a location where width changes likely won't disturb the rest of the layout (e.g. to the very right)
• If clangd is idle, hide the status bar item, if it's busy, display an icon
• A tooltip could be used to provide detailed information (if needed at all... I'm not sure why you would ever need detailed information in the status bar, if you want to debug the extension or clangd, you can look at the logs)

[fannheyward]

coc-clangd will hide clangd: idle status.

[audetto]

I totally agree with this issue, which is still not fixed. Hiding clangd status is the only solution