0.48 removed workbench.activityBar.orientation

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I liked the vertical bar.

Also monitors are limited in height but usually they have a lot of horizontal space that is unused so it’s better to stack things horizontally and avoid putting stuff in row.

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Bring back Copilot Edit as well @danperks

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Another issue, why my Mac OS menu bar indicators disappear too :slight_smile: ?? Wth Cursor??
I used multiple projects in one window/space of MacOS with the “Native tab” settings in VsCode, but today I need to use multiple windows for many projects??

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Completely agree. 0.48 removed workbench.activityBar.orientation - #45 by buiducnhat What a mess

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Just found out vertical activity bar is back in 0.48.1, enable early access and you can get it back just fine. Personally I haven’t experience any rendering issues. Glad to know the team does listen to community feedbacks, thanks to everyone invloved, much appreciated.

With that said, I really don’t think mess about with some forked vscode things is a good decision to solve any issue it might have. Correct me if Im wrong, but if there are indeed issues regarding rendering, I would speculate those came from upstream, and its prob. the best to let microsoft worry about that.

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It’s back!!!

I’m staying with Cursor then :slight_smile:

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" * Vertical sidebar option will temporarily not be available for Early Access users"

They edited the changelog :slight_smile:

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My configuration did not take effect. It’s uncomfortable

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v0.48.1 doesn’t come to me, right now, although I was setup Early access for Beta Features, lol. It’s incomprehensible why they removed it in v0.48.0

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In version 0.48.1, the panel has been restored. Please update via Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + P -> Attempt Update.

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Thanks for your team for listening to the community

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workbench.activityBar.orientation: "vertical" seems to not work as intended — it leaves activityBar horizontally oriented.

Version: 0.48.7 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: 1d623c4cc1d3bb6e0fe4f1d5434b47b958b05870
Date: 2025-04-02T04:51:59.792Z
Electron: 34.3.4
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.18.3
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.4.0

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Hey, you need to set activitybar.location to default.

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that worked! thanks.

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With these settings the view is still broken

  "workbench.activityBar.orientation": "vertical",
  "workbench.activityBar.location": "top"

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Version: 0.49.5
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: fd861c8a80c0f9e4e35294b1915ee8a7b29ae850
Date: 2025-04-24T03:21:20.123Z
Electron: 34.3.4
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.18.3
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.4.0

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@deanrie fix works!
I was not seeing the options on the settings page, but after using the following line on the settings.json file, I managed to make it work as expected.

"workbench.activityBar.orientation": "vertical",