Allow hiding an existing debug toolbar item

[alestiago]

Description

As a VS Code extension developer I would like to have the ability to:

• Remove or hide an icon of an exiting registered command in the debug toolbar. Sometimes, when building upon an existing debugType some of those icons might be redundant or not relevant anymore. Furthermore, sometimes an extension would like to customise certain icons; hiding and adding a new one would have the desired effect.

I do not know if the above is already possible (attaching to when clause?).

As part of this issue, I would also like to request documentation about the debug toolbar and this feature. I think the only available information in the documentation website is a brief sentence on Contribution Points.

In addition, I also think we're missing a sample that edits the debug toolbar in VS Code extensions samples, it would be great to have a sample there. Let me know if I should open an issue there about this.

Tasks

• Allow hiding an existing debug toolbar item
• Include samples to VS Code extensions samples for customising the debug toolbar.
• Include documentation about the debug toolbar, such as the groups and order shown here.

References

• Allow customisation of debug toolbar (eg. additional buttons)
• Actions in the debug toolbar should be properly contributed #69153

(cc: @isidorn)

[roblourens]

Are you talking about custom buttons from another extension or builtin debug commands (like step-in)? You can't hide another extension's commands. Might help to be more specific.

Also, contributing to the debug toolbar is the same as contributing to any other menu.

[alestiago]

Are you talking about custom buttons from another extension or builtin debug commands (like step-in)

Yes, I am indeed talking about custom buttons. Would supporting hiding/removing them be something the team is willing to work on?

[roblourens]

No, we can't let one extension disable features from another extension