Tree: Support showing entire cell on hover

[mortifia]

it's not break the way of reading
is less hard for the eyes

[Tyriar]

Windows explorer does this too, pretty nifty

I think I might have reported or commented on a similar issue at some point 🤔

[mortifia]

you can link this issues ? (you can find in your history ^^)

[vscodenpa]

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Happy Coding!

[benibenj]

After exploring this idea and putting together a prototype, we had discussions about it and ultimately decided against implementing the feature. Here's a quick rundown of our reasoning:

• We initially hoped to solve this with CSS, but overflow: hidden did not make this possible
• Implementing this feature would require us to duplicate the element onto the root workbench DOM element and overlay it on the original, ensuring identical styling and forwarding all user interactions (like clicks and context menus) back to the original. That's quite complex and 'hacky'.
• Feedback suggested it did not feel natural, with the flickering being particularly bothersome.
• There wasn't much demand or interest for this feature to begin with.

So, we shifted our focus towards adding custom hovers to most elements in lists/trees. This might make it easier to read the label when the item is overflowing and allows us to add more information to the hover in the future.