Hide sidebar for vnc.html

[JesterOrNot]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
See gitpod-io/workspace-images#170
We find it distracting
Describe the solution you'd like
A way to remove the sidebar

[samhed]

When connected it should fold away automatically, in this state it only shows a small handle that shouldn't be obtrusive.

If you want to get rid of it completely you should set display: none on "noVNC_control_bar_anchor" in your CSS. That should do the trick.

[CendioOssman]

This is a commonly discussed when integrating noVNC in to other systems, so I think this is worth having open and investigating further.

@JesterOrNot, the toolbar is needed for many user interactions (e.g. touch, clipboard). Is this something you've considered? Perhaps there are other ways than just completely removing the toolbar.

[samhed]

In that case, @JesterOrNot what were you expecting? Documentation in the wiki?

[JesterOrNot]

The option to completely remove it possibly as something that could be dynamically toggled so that we could create a configuration for it on a per-user basis

[samhed]

When you say "dynamically toggled", how do you envision doing that? Could you elaborate a bit?

When thinking about integrating and modifying noVNC, changing the html and css seems like the most natural path to me. But that doesn't feel like "dynamically toggling on a per-user basis".

[JesterOrNot]

You're probably right currently our VNC looks like this

and a lot of the time this is just distracting as we currently have very little preview space as is (unless opened in the browser)

[CendioOssman]

How about when it is hidden? Is it still in the way with just the handle?

Have you thought about styling it in a different way? We might be able to make that easier if we know what you need/want.

[samhed]

No response.