Show over/under Tree View as well

[pradyunsg]

Currently, the Tool Bar is shown only over/under the editor-portion of the editor.

It would be nicer if it would be shown over and under the tree-view as well (File Browser/Sidebar/whatever).

PS: I was planning to use this as an alternative to the menu-bar but without something this, it's not really good-looking. 😅

[jerone]

It would be nicer if it would be shown over and under the tree-view as well

That's not possible due to Atom's way of available panels in the workspace. See https://discuss.atom.io/t/rearrange-status-bar-to-the-bottom-panel/18597/6

The linked topic does note a workaround that you can put in your styles.less to achieve the same effect.

[pradyunsg]

Ah, so it's technically difficult. So, could you put the relevant code snippet in the README (for reference?)

PS: I did this but I'm having a hard time figuring out the height part... It probably needs the Tree-View moved vertically as well.

[jerone]

Tracking upstream: atom/atom#8939

[simurai]

FYI: I tried out putting the tool-bar full width at the bottom atom/atom#8939 (comment), but it felt weird. I think the status-bar should always be the last thing at the bottom and packages can be above it.

Also, having the tool-bar at the top with full-width would make it visually uneven. So I think keeping it like it is now is still the best option. Personally, I prefer the tool-bar on the sides.

[jerone]

Personally I have the tool-bar positioned at the top, like any other (Windows) desktop program has placed their (customizable) toolbars. To this day I find it weird that it's beside the tree-view and not above it, while it contains buttons that are related to the tree-view and not the editor only.
I still believe this should be implemented as another API function, so packages can position their bars/panels like they want. 👍

[jerone]

atom/atom#9274 was just merged, making it possible to attach to a panel that spans across the whole width and not just above/under the editor.

Waiting for another beta release before we can work on this.

[simurai]

Waiting for another beta release before we can work on this.

Something I was wondering (a bit off-topic).. how do you add something to beta but not stable? Do you release tool-bar with something like "atom": ">=1.5.0" here. Then only people with that version should see an update. And then once it lands in stable, go back to "atom": ">=0.188.0"? I guess the problem is that it would block any other updates to tool-bar that should go into stable?

[jerone]

how do you add something to beta but not stable?

I don't think this is possible yet, as it looks like the engine property is ignored at this time.

For now I just want to wait for beta to have the updated core packages required for this feature, before I (or someone else) is going to work on this.

[pradyunsg]

✨ Yay! 🎉

[varemenos]

A Docks feature was added recently to the latest beta, I'm ynder the assumption that this feature could be implemented via the Docks API.