Getting used to the orientation of the primary sidebar

Found a hack to get them both on the same side.

  1. Change the activity bar orientation to vertical
  2. Now you can drag the Chat from the sidepanel to the main panel
  3. Revert the activity bar to horizontal

Optional: Change the CMD+L Shortcut to not open the sidepanel anymore by adding this to keybindings.json

[
    // Open a new AI chat and close the sidebar
    {
        "key": "cmd+l",
        "command": "runCommands",
        "args": {
            "commands": [
                "aichat.newchataction",
                "aichat.close-sidebar"
            ]
        }
    },
]

Would be great to see an official option to support the chat on the main sidebar like most VSCode things

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