Allow to maximise the secondary sidebar

[bpasero]

We allow to maximise the panel to cover the editor area. We should explore to do the same for the secondary sidebar, as that would allow to bring the chat panel into full window sizes to interact with, i.e. similar to this:

Once an editor opens, the secondary sidebar would snap back.

One challenge I see here is that the workbench layout puts the editor+panel into 1 branch of the grid, but the secondary sidebar is outside. This seems to make toggling harder to implement (when I looked into it), but I might be missing something.

//cc @joaomoreno

[benibenj]

This should be possible, but tricky due to the grid and we have logic which relies on either panel or editor to be visible, but that could be adopted.

We have a popular feature request open which asks to be able to maximize any part of the workbench (sidebars, panel, editor) across the entire workbench, maybe we can make it part of that work and not make it specific to aux side bar.

If we only see value for having this for the chat view. Maybe we could consider a different approach such as having a maximize button which leads to showing the chat view as an overlay cantered above the workbench. Closing the overlay moves the view back to the sidebar

[bpasero]

@benibenj yeah I would prefer a solution that builds on top what we already have with how the panel can maximise. The secondary sidebar is already looking very much like a panel so it seems natural to expand the maximization support.

I agree it would probably make sense to then also support it for the primary sidebar, because we do not really know where chat is rooted in.

[sbatten]

@bpasero Just reading this so maybe it was already considered to open the chat as a chat editor instead?

[bpasero]

@sbatten yeah was considered, but this here is specifically to teach users about the secondary sidebar where chat is in. Having chat in an editor does not seem like the typical scenario a user would begin with. But its an idea we can expand on as well, I am open for ideas.