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terreng opened this issue Apr 10, 2025 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #246161
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New option to control title scrollbar visibility #246160

terreng opened this issue Apr 10, 2025 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #246161
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terreng commented Apr 10, 2025

Add an option to control the visibility of the scrollbars used for tabs and breadcrumbs in the editor title area.

Similar options already exists for controlling the visibility of the scrollbars in the editor: editor.scrollbar.horizontal and editor.scrollbar.vertical. They have three possible options: auto, visible, and hidden.

Currently, the behavior of the tabs scrollbar is hardcoded to auto. This new option would make it possible to make these scrollbars always visible or always hidden.

By allowing the tabs scrollbar to be hidden, this would address a longstanding issue that it's easy to accidentally click the blank area of the tiny tabs scrollbar, which unexpectedly scrolls your tabs instead of clicking one. This issue has been raised several times but was closed due to insufficient upvotes.
See: #233864, #111817, #157045, #185625, #219867

I will open a PR that implements this new option.

@Yoyokrazy Yoyokrazy assigned benibenj and unassigned Yoyokrazy Apr 10, 2025
@benibenj benibenj added the workbench-tabs VS Code editor tab issues label Apr 11, 2025
@benibenj benibenj added this to the May 2025 milestone Apr 11, 2025
@benibenj benibenj added the feature-request Request for new features or functionality label Apr 11, 2025
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Thanks for referencing the closed issues and creating a PR. This will be considered next month

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