Todo-tree: The sidebar icon disappears

[meoya]

When I update to 0.190, the sidebar icon disappears and my vscode pops up with the message, "Todo-Tree: 'showInExplorer' has been deprecated. If needed, the view can now be dragged to where you want it."
I only have to reinstall version 0.188 to get back to normal.

[Gruntfuggly]

The extension used to have two views (because it was created before you could move views with drag and drop). To simplify it, one of the views has now been removed.

If you want the view in to the sidebar (activity bar), just drag it from the explorer pane into the activity bar, then remove todo-tree.tree.showInExplorer from your settings, or click Don't Show This Again

[meoya]

The extension used to have two views (because it was created before you could move views with drag and drop). To simplify it, one of the views has now been removed.

If you want the view in to the sidebar (activity bar), just drag it from the explorer pane into the activity bar, then remove todo-tree.tree.showInExplorer from your settings, or click Don't Show This Again

Thank you, I did a fresh update today as you said and it works. (Yesterday, however, I also auto-updated by dragging the view from the explorer pane to the activity bar and then removing "todo-tree.tree.showInExplorer" from the settings, but when I restarted vscode, the sidebar icon still disappeared.)
Another problem: Today every time I restart vscode, the todo sidebar icon disappears and is recreated again.

[Gruntfuggly]

Yes - that's because of how the 'hideTreeWhenEmpty' setting is working, but I agree it's a bit odd.

I have a fix for it in the next release.

[kanlukasz]

I can confirm, have same case [win10]

[Gruntfuggly]

I have a fix, but there is a problem (https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/112211).

I could just remove the hideWhenEmpty setting. I don't know if people really use it or not?

[kanlukasz]

I have this todo-tree.tree.hideTreeWhenEmpty parameter set to false because of this problem.
I have not used this option before. I didn't even know about it :)
In general, I like when the icon is visible all the time 😄

[Gruntfuggly]

It would be nice if the API allowed the view to be collapsed programatically (like clicking the titlebar) but it's not currently possible. So the only alternative when you have the view in the Explorer pane and you don't want it taking up loads of room when its empty is to hide it.

If you keep it in the activity bar, then the it's not really relevant and setting todo-tree.tree.hideTreeWhenEmpty to false make sense.

[PhanDungTri]

I'm using Linux and I have have same problem.

[Gruntfuggly]

Is the todo tree view in the Explorer pane?

[Gruntfuggly]

I've just uploaded a new version which should hopefully show the icon properly unless hideTreeWhenEmpty is true. I've also changed the default of hideTreeWhenEmpty to false, which should hopefully be less of a surprise to people. 😁

[kanlukasz]

Did some tests, all works fine 👍

[radiorz]

maybe you just drag it back from the first page that contains todo tree.

[LeachZhou]

To be honest, I don’t know it can be dragged. I have been looking for it for a long time.

[Gruntfuggly]

You can drag all the views now, just grab the title bar. They can be moved into the Activity bar, into other panes (Explorer, for example) or down to the lower panel (Terminal, Problems, etc.).