Jupyter Interactive | Delete Cells without expanding it (July update issue) | Asking for roll back

One of the most convinet features that Jupyter on VS Code had was the ability to delete cells easily. It helps keeping the interactive section clean (deleteing cells that produces error, etc).

However, after July’s update this has become a cumbersome/inconvient process. Now you have to first expand the cell then delete it

To reproduce the issue following these steps

1. Add a line of code in a .py file (e.g.)

# %%
from statsmodels.graphics.tsaplots import plot_acf

1. Run the cell
2. Expand the cell (new july update)
3. Delete the cell

The attached image show how it looks before and after expansion The option to delete the cell can only be viewed after expansion

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I am not sure why this was changed in the latest update. I hope the ability for deleting a cell can be rolled back

[joyceerhl]

@abd-shouman Thank you for providing feedback, we really appreciate you taking the time to help us improve this tool.

The arrow on the left (as show below) felt more intuitve to me. When I saw it, I was able to tell that this a cell that can be expand, unlike the new used logo.

This is good feedback. We are tracking that same concern in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/130622. /cc @greazer @rebornix

[joyceerhl]

@rebornix Would it be possible to expose a third notebook.cellToolbarVisibility option “always” or “show”, or introduce a separate setting for the interactive window?

@abd-shouman Sorry to hear that the update is cluttered and confusing. Would you mind sharing what aspects of it are frustrating for you so we can improve it? We have also just fixed a bug with the variable explorer in the recovery build that we published yesterday https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-jupyter/issues/6993 Please let us know if you encountered a different problem and we can get that fixed as well.