Enable secondary sidebar by default

[JBurlison]

As of right now every time you open a new project, you need to go to View->Appearance->Secondary Side Bar to view the second side bar. As someone who uses VS Code for opening a lot of projects and directories, this is a big pain to have to repeat this process every time I open a new project. Once you enable the second side bar for a project it re-opens fine when you re-open the project. The specific feature request here is that I can have the second side bar open by default all the time. I use the secondary side bar as my file explorer and this would be very useful.

Thanks!

[vscodenpa]

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[danielvanmil]

+1

[starball5]

Related on Stack Overflow: Open secondary side bar on startup vscode.

[JBurlison]

Related on Stack Overflow: Open secondary side bar on startup vscode.

Alternatively, it could just be that the secondary sidebar's open-ness be remembered and restored on startup, which I think is how the panel works.

Yes I did mention in my post I use this. The issue is with NEW projects/folders

[tomaszs]

Related: Also Output window (bottom bar) could be a subject to default behavior. It's surprising it's not handled by default. Just add two properties to the configuration of VSCode.

[vscodenpa]

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