Output window grabbing focus extremely frustrating

[lemoinem]

• VSCode Version: Code 1.14.2 (cb82feb, 2017-07-19T23:34:09.706Z)
• OS Version: Windows_NT ia32 10.0.14393
• Extensions:

Extension	Author (truncated)	Version
ng-template	Ang	0.1.4
path-intellisense	chr	1.4.2
xml	Dot	1.9.2
vscode-npm-script	eg2	0.2.0
Hg	jak	0.0.4
Angular2	joh	2.4.0
HTMLHint	mka	0.3.3
hg	mrc	1.1.4
csharp	ms-	1.11.0
debugger-for-chrome	msj	3.1.6
typescript-hero	rbb	1.3.0
stylelint	shi	0.28.0
autoimport	ste	1.2.2
JavaScriptSnippets	xab	1.4.1

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Please refer to #15018 for reproduction steps.
This still happens (triggered by the Angular2 extension) and since the Output window is a tab along with "Problems" and "Terminal", which we use, it keeps hiding important information and is extremely distracting and prevents me from working.

Can't we have a setting somewhere to just disable the output window? Or at least prevent it from grabbing focus and becoming visible over the other tabs? I don't really care about the never-ending error/log messages from some badly written extension. If need be, I'll go and re-enable the output window when I want to have a look at it.

The fact that the extension generate error message/verbose logs is one thing, but not what I expect you to fix. The fact that VSCode does not prevent these verbose logs from showing up is what I have trouble with here.

Reproduces without extensions: No

[rebornix]

Don't know where to start but assign to @Tyriar first, we talked about the unpredictable focus issue of panels before.

[Tyriar]

@lemoinem you might want to create an issue against the angular2 extension as it's the thing telling VS Code to show the output panel.

/cc @isidorn @jrieken (not 100% who owns this)

[isidorn]

This is an issue with the extension, our current api allows extensions to say preserveFocus: true
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/src/vs/vscode.d.ts#L3325

Please file this against the angular2 extension