How to restore closed Widgets?

#1

Hi,
I had a widget Icon in the right side bar. I clicked close in the right context menu, now it is gone.
How can I restore it, without restarting the application?

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Kind regards,
Knut

#2

@Knut thank you for the discussion and welcome to the community :+1:

You can re-open your view by triggering the command that opens it, or given how you implemented the view you can trigger open view... and selecting your view from the list.

#3

Hi Vince,
thank you for your fast reply! The problem is, it is not listed in this view. Even if I restart my Theia application, the widget or icon is gone from the side panel.

#4

Hi,
I found an option under View -> Command Pallete -> Restore Workbench

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This restored my view.

From my perspective this is very hard to understand as a newbie, especially even after restarting the web application it was still missing.
I couldn’t find any documentation about that behavour e.g. how theia stores its state. Are there some detailed information, about those habbits?

#5

@Knut what view is it exactly, it is something you implemented yourself?

The reset workbench layout will restore the application to it’s default state, removing any stored data from local-storage (when the application layout and state is stored). If your view implements initializeLayout from FrontendApplicationContribution then the view will be part of the layout by default:

example: outline-view: