Introduce command palette overlay focus

[carloscuesta]

Description of the problem

Hey! 👋🏼

I recently switched from Atom to VSCode a few weeks ago since the deprecation was announced. In the transition process I realised something that made Atom a bit more easy to use when working with the command palette

Here's how the UI looks when the command palette is open in VSCode.

I find this pattern a bit confusing since there's not a clear focus to the command palette when I'm using it, I can get distracted by other things in the UI while I'm writing a command or trying to open a file.

Suggested solution

I think that focusing the command palette when is open, creates a better user experience and a focus to the UI you're interacting with. If we compare observe the behaviour in Atom, an overlay with opacity is introduced to the UI improving the focus prioritising the visibility of the command palette.

Additional context

I think we can introduce a new setting in order to enable this new feature, giving the users the flexibility to decide if they want it or not, something like:

{
  "workbench.commandPalette.overlayFocus": Boolean,
}

Can be related with https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/115641

[carloscuesta]

Hey @TylerLeonhardt do you need to triage this? 👀

[vscodenpa]

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[vscodenpa]

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