How do I move all items from left TabBar (Explorer, Search, etc.) to the right TabBar (Outline)

[thers]

So I need to move all the left TabBar items to the right one in order to get rid of that left bar, how would I achieve that?

[vince-fugnitto]

@thers as far as I can tell, you would need to rebind these components and open them to the right rather than the left, but it does not prevent future extensions, views, widgets from being added to the left. It does not also prevent end-users from moving views themselves to any location in the application.

You may try to update the sidepanel code to never create the left panel, and if views request to be opened in the left you can instead add them to the right.

[thers]

Yeah at first I tried rebinding, but it's too much code copy-paste, which isn't good for future updates, so instead I'm money-patching contributions of FrontendApplicationContribution that do extend AbstractViewContribution and if such has defaultWidgetOptions.area === 'left' I change that to right, ofc it's a total "meh" way as I am monkey-patching private property, but at least this doesn't lead to massive code copy-paste.

[thers]

Alternatively, I did extend ApplicationShell with it's further rebinding, overridding addWidget, that's a better option than monkey-patching, haha.