Pull request view flickers on startup

[bpasero]

I find the view restores not very elegantly, showing me some view ("Active PR") that then disappears:

[alexr00]

This is the view restore. What is likely happening:

1. You have an open PR checked out
2. PR gets merged
3. Reload or otherwise re-open workspace
4. VS Code core view restore shows the view
5. The PR is no longer open, so we don't actually want show the view, and now it hides.

@sandy081 is there anything an extension can about this?

[sandy081]

I do not know how the view is implemented in the extension, can it be smart by using some cache or delaying or showing loading until you know the state?

[alexr00]

We already set some contexts that are false until the extension activates and computes some state. I don't think there's anything else that the extension can do to say "don't restore this view".

[sandy081]

It looks like core needs to capture the view state then.