Move the view to specific sidebar

[David-GH]

To keep explorer more readable, I think it will be good if we can move the "Code Outline" list to a specific sidebar. The button will be on the activity bar (under Explorer, Git, Search, Extensions).

Perhaps with a badge (like git) to indicate number of functions available...

Example:
When I click on Explorer, I see explorer in sidebar
When I click on Search, I see search options sidebar
With my proposal, when I click on his icon, Code Outline take place in the sidebar

What do you think ?

Thx.

[patrys]

I'd love to do that but as far as I know VS Code does not support custom sidebar panels.

[David-GH]

Yes, I understood that after more searches...
It will be great if they allow us to add or remove buttons in the ativity bar with their custom sidebar.

May be later...

[Frodox]

same as #32

[David-GH]

@Frodox isn't same as #32

My issue talk about the possibility to add button on activity bar (which is on the left side) and add a custom sidebar view attach to it.

If we can doing this, we can move lot of things currently in explorer sidebar to their own sidebar (like projects, outline, ...).

I ask this feature because I think the explorer sidebar contain too much elements 😃

[zblove0]

@David-GH agree!

[David-GH]

Someone can attach (or move) this issue to the visual code project ?
Because the problem isn't with the code outline plugin but with vs code which not permit developers to do what we want...

[cyangOL]

microsoft/vscode#15190
https://github.com/octref/explorer-api-example

[patrys]

@cyangOL These features never made it to the stable API.

[cyangOL]

@patrys VSCode 1.23.0 added the activity bar features.

[marcio0]

Is it possible to have the previous behavior through some configuration?

[patrys]

Sorry, that's not currently possible as views are not registered programmatically.