Vscode: Please change the debugger icon

[hckr]

I'm an entomophobe and the debugger tab icon causes me much pain every time I have to use VS Code.

[nkkollaw]

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[hckr]

Please don't laugh. It's a serious matter for me.

[x1024]

It's actually pretty bigoted to imply that removing bugs is a good thing, as though bug lives don't matter? What is going on here?

[hckr]

I don't intend to cause bugs any harm. To be honest, I've never even used a debugger. I'm just very afraid of this icon.

[karevn]

It offends insects for sure.

[theonemcdonald]

I agree, this icon keeps me awake at night. I've had to seek professional help because of this icon.

[chrisdias]

Thanks for creating this issue. We think this issue is unactionable or unrelated to the goals of this project. Please follow our issue reporting guidelines.

Happy Coding!

[hckr]

@chrisdias All joking aside, how is my issue different than infamous #87268?

[TheAifam5]

@hckr check https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87440
Still, for me is an unacceptable behavior from Microsoft side.

[hckr]

@TheAifam5 Thanks, I've already read it. I have an honest question, why this issue was flagged as off-topic and the one with "Santa Hat" didn't. Maybe the context was obvious, but I still see this as a double standard within the process.

[chrisdias]

@hckr sorry about this. we had many issues be reported that were sarcastic in nature, such as "I'm a non programmer I find 'code' offensive" and this issue came in around the same time and followed what we saw was a similar pattern. It looks like someone making a joke about the debug icon, in much the same way some were making jokes about the gear icon. As a result, we closed this one too.

You can right click on the activity bar on the left and uncheck "Debug":

That will hide the icon from the activity bar. You can still debug from the menu, by pressing F5 or by bringing up the debug viewlet through the command palette (F1) or the keyboard shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+D on Windows/Linux, and CMD+SHIFT+D on Mac.