Make Icons Visible again

[jifoxpa]

Type: Bug

Open vscode

The Icons on top right window header for "Toggle Primary Sidebar", "Toggle Panel", "Toggle Secondary Side Bar" and "Customize Layout" is not displayed anymore.

I was not able to find any hint on how to set this icons to visible again.

Where is this documented?

Josef

VS Code version: Code 1.89.1 (dc96b837cf6bb4af9cd736aa3af08cf8279f7685, 2024-05-07T05:13:33.891Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19044 Modes: Remote OS version: Linux x64 5.15.0-105-generic

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[gjsjohnmurray]

If you right-click on the titlebar do you get a Layout Controls option to check?

[jifoxpa]

Hi @gjsjohnmurray,

Thanks for this quick response.

Click on Titelebar:

Click on "...":

[lanceturbes]

Also seeing this same behavior on Linux (latest Fedora Workstation, VS Code version 1.90.2).

Only happens when the tab bar is hidden. VS Code's title bar only seems to want to show either editor actions OR layout controls, but not both at the same time.

Bug does not occur VS Code on Mac for me, though. EDIT: Seeing this on Mac too, now (same version of VS Code). Maybe just didn't notice before. Same conditions, though -- hidden tab bar, editor actions enabled.

If you hide "editor actions" via "workbench.editor.editorActionsLocation": "hidden", you can see the layout control icons again, even with the tab bar hidden (at the obvious expense of not being able to see the editor action icons).

It's possible this was an intentional change, as enabling/disabling layout controls via the checkbox in the right-click menu (as mentioned in a comment above) will also hide the layout options from the "..." menu in the very top-right. Seems like an odd change, though, as the utility of those buttons are mostly because they're always visible directly.

[benibenj]

We decided to move the layout controls into the overflow menu when the editor actions are in the title bar. We did this because otherwise there would be to many actions showing. Would you prefer seeing both the editor actions and the layout actions at the same time?

Depending on the type of editor you have open, there might be many editor actions (around 7 when using the diff editor). If you then also show the layout actions, you easily reach >10 actions. The title bar allows to show max 9 items, so some items will be hidden...