Option to open right sidebar as separate window
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Description
### Feature summary
Sidebars as separate windows
### What problem are you trying to solve?
Feature request:
Sometimes it would be very useful, if the right (panels) sidebar could be opened in a **new window**. This would also give some extensive canvases more realestate. All tabs (like Changes, Terminal, Insights, ...) should remain in this new window, same as now in the sidebar.
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| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| App version | 1.1.7 |
| OS | macOS 15.7.9 |
| Theme | GitHub |
| Path | /chat |
| Tenure | Week 7 |
### Proposed solution
A new settings option, that toggles between "sidebar in main App window" and "sidebar as separate window"
If set to separate window, all tabs of current right sidebar appear in a new window of the running Copilot App
### Workflow impact
- Canvases have more realestate
- multi-display environments profit
### Installation context
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### Additional context
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Contributor guide
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the right sidebar and settings implementation, then scope separate-window behavior for all listed sidebar tabs. Done means a setting can switch between the main-window sidebar and a separate window while preserving those tabs and giving canvases more space.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100