Add an option to prevent side panel from opening

[rgarrigue]

I've this kind of messages that keep popping up the side panel

I guess it's a linter or whatever having small issues. There are multiples culprit, here it's "YAML Support", but I saw other ones. My issue is, I don't give a damn, and it's taking space, and popping up again and again if I close it. So far I could only stick it to the bottom and reduce it to the smallest size before closing... but now and then I like to open an integrated terminal, which lives in the same panel. Then the focus keep being stolen by those same messages.

So I'ld like a VS way to get rid of those. Asking plugin by plugin will never work, even if I knew where to report about those.

[sbatten]

request makes sense but really extensions should not aggressively show the channel. a setting would help the user now but any extensions behaving responsibly may not be able to reliably convey info.

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