I would really appreciate having the option to hide the activity bar for a cleaner UI. I primarily navigate using the keyboard and have been hiding the activity bar for several years. Losing that flexibility has been a bit inconvenient for me. I believe this action has been made so that agents/editor view is always visible.
Same here, this is just bad UX from them. Especially if you use cursor as full screen (e.g on mac and swiping) like me, you don’t even see the agents/editor buttons.
They should just create a keyboard command to switch between agent/editor or a right click>option to switch for non keyboard heavy users. I have a switch keyboard option between the two and it tends to be glitchy:
The width of the agent section is set by a fixed amount instead of scaling/% based on the screen size → css problem,
This also includes the explorer view, sometimes if you refresh vscode and do a switch, it doesn’t remember the previously set width.
If a PM from cursor is reading this, it’s important to preserve the flexibility of vscode for custom setups, unless the targeted ICP is a random vibe coding donnie who doesn’t even know how cursor works. If that’s the case, let us know.
@condor if you know the PM at cursor responsible for managing this, I’m more than happy to jump on a call for like 10-15minutes to explain/show.
Before we were able to set the activity bar location to “hidden” to hide it but now it seems like it’s not an option anymore? Are we not able to hide it now?
Steps to Reproduce
Set workbench.activityBar.location setting to “hidden”
Expected Behavior
Hides the activity bar
Operating System
MacOS
Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)
did you guys manage to fix the % memory fixes when switching between editor/agent tabs? it doesn’t remember the previous setting upon switching and if switching between different screen sizes, it “remembers” pixels not %/relative numbers
