Allow user to disable WCO (Window controls overlay)

[illixion]

I'm a maintainer of a popular extension for VSCode that intends to add transparency effects to the main VSCode window. My extension relies on the ability to add styles to the entire VSCode window, but PR #188793 removed the experimental setting to control WCO, which means that my extension can no longer apply transparency to window controls on Windows platforms.

WCO can also be buggy in certain situations, see #165454 and #160518 as examples.

Please add a configuration option to allow the user to override the default behavior and disable WCO. The relevant function where this check can be added is here:

vscode/src/vs/platform/window/common/window.ts

Lines 194 to 205 in e8fcc1e

	export function useWindowControlsOverlay(configurationService: IConfigurationService): boolean {
	if (!isWindows || isWeb) {
	return false; // only supported on a desktop Windows instance
	}
	if (getTitleBarStyle(configurationService) === 'native') {
	return false; // only supported when title bar is custom
	}
	// Default to true.
	return true;
	}

[mikekscholz]

Please... this annoys my OCD enough to make me want to roll back my VSC to version 1.80.

[vscodenpa]

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[vscodenpa]

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