Let AI panel able to pop-up as an independent window

Feature Requests
1

The AI panel can only be opened in the sidebar or in the editor so far.
But neither is it easy to have an immersive experience when one only needs to think within the context of the project. Since the sidebar makes it more like a “copilot” while working with code and documents, “Open as editor” is hidden in a deeply hierarchical menu.
Also, when I want to open the AI panel as editor, I find it difficult to interact between code/documents and the AI Panel repeatedly, since the experience of moving between tabs in VS Code isn’t quite intuitive.

So, is there any way to make a quick interface/button to open the AI panel in an independent window, just like Visual Studio can do? This would probably solve the issue I have and bring the possibility of an immersive discussion experience with the project.

2

If I understand you correctly, I think you can choose “Open Chat as Editor”, which you already have tried. But then just drag the new editor tab out of the IDE window. My cursor shows a forbidden symbol still, but if I let go it opens up as its own window that you can do whatever you want with.

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3

This seems to work. But the steps to achieve seemed a bit redundant.
If there’s a quicker way that would be good.