Consider giving us the ability to move the Qwen Code window to the Activity Bar / Secondary Side Bar.

[gothicserpent]

What would you like to be added?

It would be really great if we could move the Qwen Code window to the Activity Bar / Secondary Side Bar like most of the other AI tools I use.

Attached an example of the current state of affairs versus where it could be.

Why is this needed?

It's a common feature amongst other major players and may increase visibility and usability and market penetration.

Additional context

Thanks for considering.

[yiliang114]

We appreciate you bringing this to our attention. Currently, our implementation tries to pin the chat panel to the far right of the editor, assuming that most vscode/cursor users don't have the secondary sidebar visible. However, when users adjust their layout or use plugins that occupy the secondary sidebar, vscode automatically adapts the layout, which can make things look a bit odd (like in your screenshot). We'll definitely look into this. What do you think about adding a configuration option that allows users to choose where the chat panel is displayed?

[zeljkoavramovic]

This would improve user experience quite a lot.

Claude Code enables this with "Claude Code: Prefered Location" in Settings (saved as "claudeCode.preferredLocation": "sidebar" in settings.json), so you might do something similar.

[antonsoroko]

This would improve user experience quite a lot.
Claude Code enables this with "Claude Code: Prefered Location" in Settings (saved as "claudeCode.preferredLocation": "sidebar" in settings.json), so you might do something similar.

totally agree. this was one of the first things i configured in claude code extension :-)
so i have all agents in one place (right side panel).

[yiliang114]

Thank you for raising this.

This request is now effectively addressed in the latest VS Code extension (Qwen Code Companion). Qwen Code now has dedicated sidebar view support, and on supported VS Code versions it appears directly in the Secondary Side Bar by default. If that sidebar is collapsed, you can use qwen-code.focusChat to reveal it and automatically focus the chat view.

On VS Code versions that do not support the Secondary Side Bar container for extensions, the extension falls back to the regular sidebar entry. This sidebar-mode work was tracked through #1390 and implemented in #2188, and it is available in recent Qwen Code Companion releases (current latest: v0.12.3). Closing this issue as resolved.