Enable/disable parts of the status bar

[oktayacikalin]

As we already know in another issue the task bar can quickly be overloaded. Also I find myself having our long feature-branch-names-with-some-stuff consume the whole status bar. Honestly, I don't need to see the branch name there. Or at least not all the time.
Would be nice if I could for example hide the branch part.
Or just don't show the name of the branch but rather give the branch symbol a tooltip having the name.
What do you think?

[simurai]

Are you thinking of having a checkbox in the settings to toggle each item?

Another option would be to hide them in your styles.less file. Like

.status-bar .git-branch {
  display: none;
}

or for example if you also wanna hide the "current path" that usually takes up a lot of space:

.status-bar {
  .current-path,
  .git-branch {
    display: none;
  }
}

[mehcode]

Are you thinking of having a checkbox in the settings to toggle each item?

I'd like that.

As a UX improvement, perhaps truncating the branch name to N characters (eg. "long-name- ...") and have a hover to show the full name.

[oktayacikalin]

I've found a workaround by using an extension to show the path in the title bar and just hide that thing using:

status-bar {
    .current-path {
        display: None;
    }
}

But honestly - yes - I would find it much easier if I could just tick items on and off.

Also I'm thinking that just showing the symbol with the tooltip containing the full branch name would be a good thing. If it's not too much work, perhaps make this also configurable so that people have a choice here. Of course, if you show the branch name in the status bar, it should be cut off at some point (like @mehcode suggested).

[simurai]

Made a PR that prevents overlapping and truncates long branch names: #62

Re. "adding toggles to the settings" and "tooltip instead of file path" are still open for consideration.