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Add an explorer/title menu contribution point #108271

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Eric Amodio (eamodio)
opened on Oct 7, 2020

Currently extensions can't contribute to the Explorer's title menu

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It would be great to allow this. For example it would allow for a better UX in the Toggle Excluded Files to add the toggle there rather than omni-present in the statusbar (See #103536 for an ask)

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  1. Eric Amodio (eamodio)
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    Isidor Nikolic (isidorn)
    on Oct 7, 2020

  2. isidorn commented on Oct 20, 2020

    @isidorn
    Isidor Nikolic (isidorn)
    on Oct 20, 2020

    Eric Amodio (@eamodio) I think this is a fair request.
    However, I would be worried that too many actions end up being there which would lead to too many details.

    So for now no immediate plans but let's leave in the backlog and I am open to allow this in the future if there are more good use cases.

  3. Isidor Nikolic (isidorn)
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    file-explorerExplorer widget issues
    on Oct 20, 2020
  4. Isidor Nikolic (isidorn)
    added this to the Backlog milestone on Oct 20, 2020

  5. eamodio commented on Oct 24, 2020

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    Eric Amodio (eamodio)
    on Oct 24, 2020
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    😢

  6. gjsjohnmurray commented on Feb 6, 2021

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    John Murray (gjsjohnmurray)
    on Feb 6, 2021
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    However, I would be worried that too many actions end up being there which would lead to too many details.

    Isidor Nikolic (@isidorn) that could be mitigated by implementing a '...' secondary actions menubutton which would appear if at least one contribution to explorer/title specified a group that disqualifies it from being a button on the title. The `scm/title' menu operates this way.

  7. Isidor Nikolic (isidorn)
    assigned
    Jackson Kearl (JacksonKearl)
    and unassigned
    Isidor Nikolic (isidorn)
    on Aug 12, 2021
  8. Jackson Kearl (JacksonKearl)
    modified the milestones: Backlog, August 2021, On Deck on Aug 13, 2021

  9. JacksonKearl commented on Aug 13, 2021

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    Jackson Kearl (JacksonKearl)
    on Aug 13, 2021
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    An "Add config files to project" extension would be a good client of this menu, probably others. Following SCM view's lead as John Murray (@gjsjohnmurray) suggests sounds reasonable.

  10. jaredbroad commented on Nov 30, 2021

    @jaredbroad
    Jared (jaredbroad)
    on Nov 30, 2021

    🙏 Please reconsider for the backlog VS Code Issue Triage Bot (@vscode-triage-bot)

  11. JacksonKearl commented on Nov 30, 2021

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    Jackson Kearl (JacksonKearl)
    on Nov 30, 2021
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    On Deck is higher than Backlog

  12. jaredbroad commented on Dec 1, 2021

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    Jared (jaredbroad)
    on Dec 1, 2021

    Awesome thank you Jackson Kearl (@JacksonKearl)! Maybe for the December 2021 milestone then 😁 🙏

    '...' secondary actions menu button

    Also -- is this issue generally "panels adding to their title bars" or specifically the explorer panel? It would be nice if all panels operated this operated as an overflow -- e.g. 3 buttons can appear in the bar but on the 4th it appears in the ... section.

  13. JacksonKearl commented on Dec 1, 2021

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    Jackson Kearl (JacksonKearl)
    on Dec 1, 2021
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    Explorer panel only. Some of the other panels already support contributions, such as SCM.

  14. jaredbroad commented on Dec 1, 2021

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    Jared (jaredbroad)
    on Dec 1, 2021

    Do custom panels support buttons Jackson Kearl (@JacksonKearl)? We couldn't find anything about it.

  15. JacksonKearl commented on Dec 1, 2021

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    Jackson Kearl (JacksonKearl)
    on Dec 1, 2021
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    Jared (@jaredbroad) yes, I know GitLens's panels have actions, I assume the code is pretty much the same as core's panels.

  16. Logan Ramos (lramos15)
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    Logan Ramos (lramos15)
    and unassigned
    Jackson Kearl (JacksonKearl)
    on May 25, 2022

  17. dmalan commented on Sep 7, 2022

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    David J. Malan (dmalan)
    on Sep 7, 2022

    Just to add to the mix with a use case we have in mind in educational contexts, Codespaces tends to assume that a user's default workspace is /workspaces/foo, but users can open a specific subfolder therein, as file File > Open Folder. E.g., if a user opens bar, they'll find themselves at a URL like https://{name}.github.dev/?folder=%2Fworkspaces%2Ffoo%2Fbar. Once there, though, it's not particularly obvious in GUI how to pop the stack to escape bar, except via, e.g., File > Open Folder again or by changing the URL to https://{name}.github.dev/?folder=%2Fworkspaces%2Ffoo.

    Via an extension, then, we're hoping to add a "parent folder" icon to Explorer that takes students to .. with a single click or perhaps even a "home folder" icon that takes students back to /workspaces/$RepositoryName.

    We can contribute such now via view/title, but the icons then end up appearing in multiple views, not just Explorer. Ideally, it'd be possible to scope such to that specific view, a la:

    {
  "command": "extension.home",
  "group": "navigation",
  "when": "view == explorer"
}

    Many thanks!

    CC Rongxin Liu (@rongxin-liu) John Keech (@jkeech)

  18. lramos15 commented on Sep 7, 2022

    @lramos15
    Logan Ramos (lramos15)
    on Sep 7, 2022
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    We can contribute such now via view/title, but the icons then end up appearing in multiple views, not just Explorer. Ideally, it'd be possible to scope such to that specific view, a la:

    The explorer already has 4 icons which is where we normally cap number of displayed icons in a view panel. As John Murray (@gjsjohnmurray) stated once this is implemented these contributions are likely to exist as a ... menu within the explorer. I'm curious if you feel this will hinder student's discovery of the action

  19. lramos15 commented on Oct 12, 2026

    @lramos15
    Logan Ramos (lramos15)
    on Oct 12, 2026
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    This actually works via existing menu vie titles contribs.

    "menus": {
  "view/title": [
    { "command": "myExt.toggle", "when": "view == workbench.explorer.fileView", "group": "navigation" }
  ]
}

    Fixed via 063ecfe

  20. Logan Ramos (lramos15)
    closed this as completedon Oct 12, 2026
  21. vs-code-engineering
    modified the milestones: On Deck, 1.143.0 on Oct 12, 2026
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