#1105 - Provide an option to hide the activity bar currently has 79 upvotes.

Per today's discussion in UX meeting #15217, I came up with this idea:

(Ignore the blank part on the right, just a quick hack to get the idea across)

It'll work similarly to Windows's Ctrl+Tab or macOS's Cmd+Tab. Say if you have Cmd+B assigned to it:

Workflow

• Cmd+B brings up this dock

  • If sidebar is hidden, also bring up the dimmed Viewlet
  • If sidebar is shown, dim active Viewlet

  

• While Cmd is pressed, additional B selects next Viewlet, both the highlight item on the dock and dimmed Viewlet background update

  

• When Cmd is released, dock is gone. The last selected Viewlet is shown.

  

Additional

• This could also apply to panels, where we can have a horizontal dock.

What does everyone think?

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