Option to create customized views/perspectives of the interface

[IgnacioAusili]

Being able to organize and move the panels that contain the project information and other utilities, such as the console, debug buttons, etc.; saving that scheme / layout of the panels and being able to switch between them at any time would be a very useful tool. There is something similar called "Profiles" but it also saves the extensions and other settings, making switching between them tedious since it takes several minutes to load and also to save.

Such a function exists in IDES such as Eclpise, which lets you create these schemes, give them a name and an icon, even brings default schemes, such as "browsing" which puts on screen all the panels to search for project information, another one is "debuggin" which puts on screen all the panels related to debugging the project. You could also add that kind of default schemes.

Here is an example of an ide with this feature:

[gjsjohnmurray]

it also saves the extensions and other settings

Did you notice these options when creating a profile?

[IgnacioAusili]

También guarda las extensiones y otras configuraciones

¿Te has fijado en estas opciones a la hora de crear un perfil?

If I was aware of that, even so, it is not optimized for what I am proposing, also it does not work or is not made for that, since for example if I delete a panel and change the profile for another in which that panel was, the panel still does not appear, when it is supposed to save the layout of the panels, In addition, the way to access the profiles option is somewhat tedious, for example in Eclipse it generates a button in the top bar with the view you created.

[sbatten]

@sandy081 historically we had an idea of layout modes, I'm not sure if profiles completely replaced that idea.

[vscodenpa]

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[bilogic]

Panels should also be allowed to dock at the top, see why #201452
It continues to baffle me why it was so selective to have only 3 of the 4 possiblities (left, right, bottom, but no top).

[sandy081]

Have you tried partial profiles - https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_81#_support-for-partial-profiles - and see if this helps your usecase?

[bilogic]

#201452 this is really better ergonomics, would appreciate the help with upvoting. Thank you.

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