Option to disable Touch Bar controls and leave control strip

[mokyox]

I wrote about this already in a closed issue and was recommended to make a new issue instead.

Is there a way users can disable Touch Bar controls and leave the control strip intact? Something like this without the highlighted area.

At the moment, the only workaround is to force the Touch Bar to display the Fn keys but of course, that means I can't use the control strip.

[bpasero]

Currently not.

[mokyox]

@bpasero Thanks for responding. Is there any chance it will be included in a future update? I keep pressing the run command button by accident.

[felipenmoura]

I like the idea too.
I've been working on a plugin that adds features for the touchbar, but it is limited to 6 buttons because of space.
@bpasero If you can point me the right direction where it is implemented in VSCode source, I can try and open a PR :)

[mokyox]

@felipenmoura That would be great! The option to customise the touch bar like many other apps would be very useful.

[felipenmoura]

Yes, @mokyox . We added this using the user settings.
We couldn't figure out yet, how to customize it with the same design as other apps in mac.
You can give it a try here:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=felipe.nasc-touchbar#overview

[mokyox]

@felipenmoura Looks good so far! My only recommendation would be to make the icon sizes bigger. Alas, I think me and the touch bar aren't meant to be and I'd rather have it empty at this point.

Also, if @bpasero can point you in the direction of where it is in the code, that would be great.

[felipenmoura]

thanks, cool.
Yep, I agree about the icons...but VSCode support for icons in touchbar is still very limited, that's why we decided to go for the ascii symbols instead.

[bpasero]

A setting could be added around here to prevent the creation of the touchbar: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/src/vs/workbench/electron-browser/window.ts#L322