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Explore how setting categories are formatted #55800

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This came up in #54690 (comment) and #55616 (comment)

tl;dr, we show settings with some category context that's dynamically computed based on the sections its in. In the flat search mode, we show the full category from the setting key but not the TOC category.

  • Should we show the TOC category somewhere in the flat search mode?
  • Should the category with multiple components be formatted differently? e.g. instead of Editor.Hover: Delay, Editor > Hover: Delay or something like that? Not a fan of the dot here especially when a component contains spaces. Workbench.Command Palette: History looks wrong
  • Since we updated the category opacity to meet color contrast guidelines, the categories are harder to skim/parse out visually. Anything we can do about that?
  • Acronyms like IE and CSS should be formatted in all caps, where they are extracted from the setting key.

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