Idea: More folder structure could improve overview

[hediet]

Personally, I believe more smaller files are usually better than fewer huge files.
However, if there are too many files, its also difficult to navigate the source code.
In contrib/chat/browser, there are currently almost 50 ts files:

I suggest to group them by function or UI composition structure.

I can help here in debt week!

[bpasero]

From that list I own chatStatus.ts and chatSetup.ts. @hediet what is your suggestion where to move that specifically?

[hediet]

Ah, I randomly just looked at these two.
I think chatStatus and chatStatusItemService should be in a folder chatStatus.
Also, chatStatus could be broken up, its a very long file - the dashboard could be extracted into its own file.

Ideally I think a folder should contain between 3-8 items (subfolders and files).
There are 194 files in the folder recursively in total, so there should be 28-96 folders to organize the files (recursively). Currently there are 22 folders, some just have just one file...

[bpasero]

I appreciate the ideas but I think this is your real Endgegner:

vscode/src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/browser/chatInputPart.ts

Line 2347 in 0d1433a

}

vscode/src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/browser/chatWidget.ts

Line 2827 in 0d1433a

}

vscode/src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/browser/media/chat.css

Line 2781 in 0d1433a

}

vscode/src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/browser/chatListRenderer.ts

Line 1848 in 0d1433a

}

[roblourens]

I only navigate by cmd+P and memorize the name of every file so I don't notice this 😛

Let's try to reorganize this a bit, people can move their own files, but I will probably do it in debt week and try to avoid causing a bunch of merge conflict pain. Or someone can do it when Redmond is out for thanksgiving :)