Menu stuck in compact mode

[jimrandell]

Issue Type: Bug

I don't know how it happened, but I was reading the June 2022 (version 1.69) Release Notes, and had just set the following in user Settings UI:

workbench.preferredDarkColorTheme
workbench.preferredLightColorTheme
workbench.preferredHighContrastColorTheme
workbench.preferredHighContrastLightColorTheme

...when I looked up and saw the MenuBar had changed to a 'hamberger menu'!

• I restored the defaults for those settings
• I closed Settings UI
• I restarted vscode
• I opened Settings UI
• I found the window.menuBarVisibility was set to classic
  • I set window.menuBarVisibility to toggle

after doing this, hitting alt key toggled the visibility of the hamburger menu from visible to invisible...but this did NOT restore the full menubar (classic menu)

• I restarted vscode
• I tried every option for window.menuBarVisibility (hidden, toggle, etc)
  • with vscode restarts between each change
• I opened user settings.json
  • I confirmed that "window.menuBarVisibility" was NOT present
  • I added item:
    • "window.menuBarVisibility": "classic"
  • restarted vscode

I tried 15 different google searches, rewording the search text each time:

vscode menu bar compact
vscode menu bar stuck in compact
vscode menu bar hamburger menu broken
vscode menu bar settings broken
etc

...but 45 min of reading similar issues and testing recommended fixes...produced no change.

I really don't like the compact menu, I hope you can help!

Cheers,
-Jim

VS Code version: Code 1.69.0 (92d25e3, 2022-07-07T05:28:36.503Z)
OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19043
Restricted Mode: No

System Info

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Memory (System)	15.95GB (6.33GB free)
Process Argv	--crash-reporter-id aa896b77-2c4e-4759-aa6c-deb823a6f94c
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[gjsjohnmurray]

Have you enabled Command Center using "window.commandCenter": true?

[jimrandell]

Have you enabled Command Center using "window.commandCenter": true?
Yes I have!

[gjsjohnmurray]

Then please see #152906

/duplicate

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