Comments API: resolved/unresolved comments

The comments API doesn’t have the concept of resolved/unresolved threads, although most code review tools distinguish them. The current API allows us to surface this to the users, see https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/122243

However, this seems pretty limited. I find it difficult to identify all my unresolved comments. It’s very easy to miss some of them. If the API had a boolean for unresolved comments, we could surface them in multiple ways:

• In the Comments panel, surface the number of unresolved comments, similar to what is done with Problems:
• In the Comments panel, highlight the unresolved comments (or put them in bold), so that it’s obvious to the user what comments they still have to go through.
• In the Comments panel, have a way to hide/filter the resolved comments.
• In the Editor, consider consider using a different background color for unresolved comments. I currently use a different label for unresolved comments, but this is very subtle.
• In the gutter, use a different symbol for unresolved comments (e.g. or a diamond of another color).
• In the Editor, provide a way to go to the next unresolved comment (an alternative to Go to Next Comment Thread).

[isidorn]

@laurentlb Thank you very much for your proposal. @rebornix, @alexr00 and me have quickly discussed this and we believe this proposal makes good sense. We plan to start looking into it next milestone. Though no promises yet when this will land, we will know more in December when we start our investigation.

[alexr00]

If anyone is eager for this API to be finalized then please comment and let me know how it’s working for you. Otherwise, I will plan to finalize later in 2022.