Comment + gutter icon is always showing when hovering over lines

[willresen]

Issue Type: Bug

I am not sure if this was something I accidentally enabled, but it looks like it appeared with the latest VSCode version. Hovering over lines now shows a + symbol in the gutter, and it's highly distracting. Is this a bug, or can it be disabled?

VS Code version: Code 1.67.0 (57fd6d0, 2022-05-04T12:06:02.889Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19044
Restricted Mode: No

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[willresen]

unknown_2022.05.10-13.29.mp4

[alexr00]

@willresen The "+" on line hover indicates that you can leave an extension comment on that line. We used to only show the "+" when you hovered over the gutter itself, but now we show it over the whole line so that it's easier to find.

This means that you have an extension installed that let's you leave comments in files. The extension might have a way for you to disable this.

I would like to add a feature to VS Code that just disables all commenting. Assigning to June to work on this.

[willresen]

@alexr00, great to know, thank you. i'll see if I can figure out what the extension is and will disable it in the meantime. it's very distracting - can you consider an option that preserves the old symbol behavior where it is only displayed when hovering in the gutter? comments are useful but there is now too much distracting movement on screen. it also shows in Zen mode which I believe is counter productive.

[alexr00]

it also shows in Zen mode which I believe is counter productive.

Good point, this should be disabled in Zen mode.

[joaomoreno]

@alexr00 Bit more thoughts on this:

Maybe a setting wouldn't be the right fit for this, since a user might forget that it set it and forget about it... or worse, it could be set at workspace level and the user never even knew it was set.

Maybe runtime UI state would work best since it isn't as sticky. Additionally, it would be great if there is some indication that comments are indeed hidden as opposed to the current file not having any comments at all. What do you think?

[alexr00]

Additionally, it would be great if there is some indication that comments are indeed hidden as opposed to the current file not having any comments at all. What do you think?

Having some indication that there are comments, they're just hidden, makes sense. We should do this.

Maybe runtime UI state would work best since it isn't as sticky

We can start with some runtime UI state and add a setting later if there's a desire for it.