eclipse-theia/theia

[statusbar] support hiding individual statusbar items

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#5,664 opened on Jul 8, 2019

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Description

High Level

Support hiding/showing statusbar items.

Description

I think it'd be useful as a user to be able to hide/show statusbar items. With many extensions and plugins contributing statusbar items, the statusbar can become cluttered and important (or useful information for a given user) and having the option to display items which the user cares about can be useful. This means that for a given user, and even workspace the user can choose which items to display.

The feature was recently added to vscode. https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_36#_hide-individual-status-bar-items

Contributor guide

Research direction
Investigate how VSCode implements statusbar item hiding (contribution points and context menu). Then review Theia's statusbar extension point and add support for toggling visibility per item. Implement UI controls (e.g., right click menu) to hide/show items. Ensure state persistence (workspace settings).
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
2
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
1-3 hours
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Stale
ClarityHow clearly the issue explains the expected change, acceptance criteria, and next step.
Clear
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None
Newbie friendlinessA 1-100 score estimating how approachable this issue is for first-time contributors.
60