Vscode: setting to turn off tooltips in explorer pane

[hansifer]

Tooltips on filenames in the explorer pane are annoyingly obtrusive, obscuring the file below the hovered one and often code as well. Additionally, they are of low value. I rarely need to know a file's full path when I'm working in a known repo.

PLEASE provide a setting to turn these tooltips off.

[sefaYavuz]

This is so annoying. It blocks the view of other files as well.

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[cleverlemming]

I agree with hansifer. Please turn this feature off if you don't want to fix it. Users know where their repository is without this distracting redundancy.

[ariens-shopify]

I agree with this frustration. I'm usually a vim user, but the project that I'm contributing to atm requires vs code. This has been driving me nuts, especially being unfamiliar with the repo directory structure _and_ the IDE. I'm constantly having to focus on another element to be able to dismiss the hover.

[isidorn]

Ok, let's reopen and we might add this in the future. Also there was a duplicate issue.

[dehmer]

I'm very glad this issue was reopened.
I'd really like to have an option to disable hovers in explorer completely.

Just out of interest: What benefit do users get from the information provided in said hovers? It seems pretty redundant to me too. Is there any pointer to the initial requirement or why this would be useful?

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[Rusty-Shackleford]

Is there a way to change the format of it? The weird thing is I don't ever recall noticing this before, but now it's all I can see. I'm thinking something may have changed the look of it, but I've removed all preferences for workspace and user and it still looks the same.