Allow moving the side-panel next to the explorer panel

[martin-braun]

First of all I love the new side panel, thank you for that. I'm really amazed by it's capabilities so far and the execution was well done, especially that I can even put things from the bottom panel into it.

Right now the new side-panel has to be on the opposite side of the explorer panel, but I would like to put the side-panel and explorer next to each other, so I end up with 3 columns like so:

+------------------------------+-------------+-------------+
|                              |             |             | 
|                              |             |             | 
|                              |             |             | 
|        Main Context          | Side Panel  |  Explorer   | 
|                              |             |             | 
|                              |             |             | 
|                              |             |             | 
+------------------------------+-------------+-------------+

It would be nice if the side-panel could be moved to the left or right in a similar fashion like the explorer panel or bottom panel.

I would welcome a context menu entry "move side panel to left/right" when right-clicking it:

This would really be helpful to use the full potential of the new side-panel. Some more background info why I want both panels next to each other:

I use an extension to auto-collapse the explorer panel and I use the side-panel for opened editors and outline. I hided tabs and use VSCode in portrait aspect ratio. When I open new files I expand the explorer panel or use a command to open a file and only the side-panel is seen permanently to de-clutter my session, I just keep all relevant files to my session open for quicker access. I wish to have both panels on the right side to make my work-flow simpler.

Thank you!

[IllusionMH]

Looks like duplicate of #142742 that was created from comment on the same issue - #141349

[gjsjohnmurray]

/duplicate of #142742

[martin-braun]

Yes, you are right, thank you for merging and copying my comment to the relevant issue. Really appreciate it! :)