setting to turn off tooltips in explorer pane

[hansifer]

Tooltips on filenames in the explorer pane are annoyingly obtrusive, obscuring the file below the hovered one and often code as well. Additionally, they are of low value. I rarely need to know a file's full path when I'm working in a known repo.

PLEASE provide a setting to turn these tooltips off.

[sefaYavuz]

This is so annoying. It blocks the view of other files as well.

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[cleverlemming]

I agree with hansifer. Please turn this feature off if you don't want to fix it. Users know where their repository is without this distracting redundancy.

[ariens-shopify]

I agree with this frustration. I'm usually a vim user, but the project that I'm contributing to atm requires vs code. This has been driving me nuts, especially being unfamiliar with the repo directory structure and the IDE. I'm constantly having to focus on another element to be able to dismiss the hover.

[isidorn]

Ok, let's reopen and we might add this in the future. Also there was a duplicate issue.

[dehmer]

I'm very glad this issue was reopened.
I'd really like to have an option to disable hovers in explorer completely.

Just out of interest: What benefit do users get from the information provided in said hovers? It seems pretty redundant to me too. Is there any pointer to the initial requirement or why this would be useful?

[Rusty-Shackleford]

Is there a way to change the format of it? The weird thing is I don't ever recall noticing this before, but now it's all I can see. I'm thinking something may have changed the look of it, but I've removed all preferences for workspace and user and it still looks the same.

[eieioxyz]

As a developer, I have zero use for these.

But as a tutorial creator, they are downright annoying. I find myself editing around these, trying to cut them out, re-recording portions, etc.

[alanschneider]

I wish they would just fix this issue. It has been reported in the past by another user: #82775. It's incredibly annoying, and sometimes the tooltip wraps over multiple lines (See #115653).

[samheuck]

Agreed. Breadcrumbs already does a great job of showing me where I am in the file tree. I find the file path tooltip pop-ups to be really visually distracting.

[iskrisis]

This is really hard when doing file traversing in tutorials/screencasts. I don't think anyone uses this it just makes stuff complicated to edit afterwards.

[samheuck]

@isidorn Any chance you could take a second look at this? Several people have expressed that this hover tool-tip is not useful in day-to-day programming work. If you could help us understand some of the challenges that are making this issue out-of-scope, perhaps we could put our heads together and come up with some solutions to overcome them?

[monk-afk]

Here's a workaround that worked for me; a broken setting to the workbench.hover.delay in User/settings.json:

    "editor.hover.enabled": false,
    "workbench.hover.delay": null,

[samheuck]

Here's a workaround that worked for me; a broken setting to the workbench.hover.delay in User/settings.json:

    "editor.hover.enabled": false,
    "workbench.hover.delay": null,

This didn't work for me in VS Code v1.91.1 build: f1e16e1

[samheuck]

Somebody has more pull than the rest of us. See: #173236

I'm really disappointed by the communication and response of those with more influence over this project specifically on this issue.

[monk-afk]

sorry about that not working, i should have mentioned i'm running 1.89.1 until #213780 is fixed

[zemariolacBG]

Here's a workaround that worked for me; a broken setting to the workbench.hover.delay in User/settings.json:

    "editor.hover.enabled": false,
    "workbench.hover.delay": null,

THANKS!!

[ekinertac]

Here's a workaround that worked for me; a broken setting to the workbench.hover.delay in User/settings.json:

    "editor.hover.enabled": false,
    "workbench.hover.delay": null,

This method is effective, but it also disables the popup on the code itself.

[MariuzM]

 "workbench.hover.delay": null,

use this to disable tooltip in explorer and other stuff but not editor / code