Contribute to the language status

Hi 👋

Currently the Python extension contributes individual items to the status bar. On my macOS I see the Python version being used on the left side (picture). There might be other items? I suggest to use the language status bar, Typescript is already using this (picture attached).

This way all the Python status bar items will come under a common item making the whole status bar experience cleaner for our users.

The status bar items which are actually progress our current advise is to use the withProgress-API. With that you announce a long running thing to VS Code. Our current thinking is to add a new progress location which is the extension’s language status. With that we can render something on the composite item as well as on the item itself. This is being discussed here, please chime in.

fyi @brettcannon @jrieken

[karrtikr]

Sure, thanks a lot for the quick fix!

[isidorn]

@karrtikr thanks for looking into this and thanks for filling that issue with nice steps. We plan to look into it this milestone.

I do agree that it looks good, much cleaner!