Allow for floating windows

[Brakkar]

Hi,
I suggest floating windows option for:

• Terminal
• Debug console
• Problems
• Output

Eventually:

• tabs
• Explorer / search / debug / git / extensions

This way we could take advantage of large screen space and / or multi monitors.

Having to constantly switch between the various windows is not optimum working flow.

[Nition]

Just adding my support to this. Quite often with the full Visual Studio I'd drag out a tab to my other monitor so that I could view two code files at once. The split pane functionality is nice but not the same.

[adamvoss]

I see editor tabs as more important than the others. Really hard to utilize two monitors when you can't breakout a tab. This is important when referencing code, but also for things like Markdown Preview.

[CherryDT]

How is it supposed to work...? I can't get it to work (on 1.11.0-Insider). When dragging a tab outside of the window, it either displays a 🛇 and doesn't let me drop, or, when dropped on top of a Windows Explorer window, it copies the file...

[adamvoss]

@CherryDT This issue is still open and marked as Backlog. Do you have a reference that says it is supposed to be implemented in 1.11?

[CherryDT]

@vossad01 You are right I was confused for a sec, because I came from the closed issue #10147 where it said "Already addressed by #10121" and I took "addressed" as "solved". My mistake.

[mlewand]

I'd say that undocking tabs (editors more specifically) is a must have rather than eventually type of task. Would love to have it implemented.

[mlewand]

@bpasero @aeschli is this a feature that you'd like to get and review as a pull request? It seems to be a bigger task, thus it make sense to ask before going with implementation.

[bpasero]

@mlewand this is no area where we expect a PR due to technical limitations. If you have an idea though, let us know.

[mlewand]

@bpasero by technical limitation do you say that it's a Electron limitation? Or is it more about VSCode one project <-> one window design?