Can a VSCode Extension register commands to the toolbar

[ngfelixl]

Hi everyone :)
is it possible for a VSCode extension to register one of its own commands to the toolbar dynamically (based on activated or installed state or something). How would you do that? Although it would be good if the extension could handle that itself, a feasible solution would also be to register a "not-available" command in Theia in the toolbar and hide it, until the command (or extension) becomes available?
Thanks in advance!

[msujew]

Hey @ngfelixl,

you can register VSCode plugin commands to the toolbar, but there is no menu context name yet that allows plugins to contribute these by themselves (mainly because VSCode does not feature a toolbar). Meaning that right now, either the tool developer needs to add those in the default-set of commands or the user needs to add them manually.

[ngfelixl]

That sounds like it would be an interesting option to allow a contribution to the toolbar from within VSCode settings? Maybe something like

"contributions": {
  "menus": {
    "theia/toolbar": [...]
  }
}

Its not included in the vscode schema, but just extends it, so it would not hurt. Groups could be achieved with the group attribute as well. Would that be an interesting feature request?

[msujew]

Sure, feel free to create a feature request for this.