Close assistant

[adamsoutar]

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This seems like such a silly ticket to write - hopefully I'm just being dumb and I've missed something 😅

Is it possible to close Assistant?

I hit the magic wand icon because I was curious about what it was, and that opened the panel asking for an API key.

I'm not sure what I'm looking for, but hitting the wand again doesn't get rid of it, pressing Cmd+W doesn't get rid of it, Esc doesn't get rid of it, double-clicking the separator bar doesn't get rid of it, putting in an actual key and then looking for buttons, there's still no way to get rid of it.

The best I can do is drag it across to like 10px wide - it has a minimum size. Is there a way to close it?

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[JosephTLyons]

Hey @adamsoutar, what you're looking for is the button used to close the associated dock that is housing the assistant. It looks like a Z.

[adamsoutar]

Cheers mate.

I know it probably seems like a silly little ticket, but given the fact that someone filed a dupe, and somebody else gave this issue a thumbs-up, it might be worth the dev team looking into more intuitive UX? :)

I personally wouldn't expect [Z] to mean "Toggle Right Dock", nor would I expect to look in the Status Bar to close something that looks like a tab and came from a button in the top right.

And to me it seems like Cmd+W should work on these panels because it doesn't conflict with anything atm - it just does nothing.

[JosephTLyons]

Something to note is that assistant isn't tied directly to any specific dock, but whatever dock you decide to put it in (right or left in this case).

The model might be easier to understand when you think about the project panel, which works the same way. You put it in your preferred dock (right or left) and the the project panel button opens and closes that dock. Same thing happens for assistant, the terminal, and the collaboration panel, which all have buttons in the status bar that trigger their dock to open / close.

I think there are still ways we can help make things more obvious to the user, so I've tagged this as a discoverability issue.

[tkgalk]

Yeah, this has to be fixed, I had to do a Google search to find a GitHub issue to close a panel. Definitely needs some UX work. 🙈

[Yohannfra]

In my case I disabled the assistant panel in the setting.json file

  "assistant": {
    "button": false
  },

So now if it opens I can't close it anymore since the icons is not visible anymore.

Screenshot:

[mrnugget]

Can't you close the assistant with the workspace: toggle right dock (by default bound to cmd+r) action?

[joshdales]

I just ran into this - I had also hidden the button couldn't close it.

I didn't know about the keyboard shortcut because the only place that is exposed as a far as I can tell is by the tooltip on the z button.