Allow extensions to add views to the secondary side bar

[eamodio]

Now that the secondary sidebar has fully landed, it would be great if extensions could add views directly to it.

I am hoping to use the secondary sidebar for a new "Commit Details" view in GitLens, that could possibly track the current line (like the line history) and also for showing commit details when we add the ability for having a full commit graph in an editor tab,

/cc @sbatten

[vscodenpa]

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[worksofliam]

Agreed. It'd be neat if we could define a panel or a view with a new optional prop like location with possible values like:

• primary (how it currently works, and the default)
• secondary which could be the new secondary sidebar.

[vscodenpa]

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Happy Coding!

[eamodio]

@sbatten Any movement on this?

[mattseddon]

This would be very useful.

[vmwsree]

Is this feature available?

[aazam-gh]

Is it not reflected in the docs?

[vmwsree]

I couldn't find any documentation of implimentation

[Askhento]

This seems like the same as other issue #198087 but also have a PR.
It waits for an upvote due to automation reason.

[a-stewart]

The other issue was closed - I missed that it was a dup of this - giving this issue my upvote and pointing the FR at this bug.

[ArturoDent]

@eamodio Can an extension move a view to the auxiliary side bar? If so, can you show an example please. Thank you.

[crapitea]

This would be extremely useful for distributions like NixOS where you can configure what extensions are automatically installed with VSCode. With this, it would be finally possible to automatically configure what extensions are being displayed on the Auxiliary Bar.

[zeyugao]

It seems that the github copilot extension now has the capability to achieve that, but how?

[gal1aoui]

I am wondering if the feature request now is available or not, cuz in the latest version of vscode, they add Copilot, it works as mentioned in this request

[skymen]

I am wondering the same thing. I'd love to be able to move my extension to the secondary side bar too