sidebar chat not opened while developing on stable

[eleanorjboyd]

Testing #213514

1. download the newest vscode stable
2. open sample chat extension
3. do the steps in the readme, npm install then run
4. you cannot get to the chat at all, I am able to find the chat commands in the command palette but any ones that I click to open the chat panel fail and no warning is given

quick-chat-not-opening.mov

no logs about it:

2024-05-28 11:33:25.056 [info] [FetcherService] Using Helix fetcher
2024-05-28 11:33:25.056 [info] [gitExtensionService] Initializing Git extension service.
2024-05-28 11:33:25.056 [info] [gitExtensionService] Successfully activated the vscode.git extension.
2024-05-28 11:33:25.056 [info] [gitExtensionService] Enablement state of the vscode.git extension: true.
2024-05-28 11:33:25.056 [info] [gitExtensionService] Successfully registered Git commit message provider.
2024-05-28 11:33:25.817 [info] [auth] Logged in as eleanorjboyd
2024-05-28 11:33:26.308 [info] [chat] copilot token chat_enabled: true
2024-05-28 11:33:26.308 [info] [githubTitleAndDescriptionProvider] Initializing GitHub PR title and description provider provider.
2024-05-28 11:33:26.311 [info] [auth] Got Copilot token for eleanorjboyd
2024-05-28 11:33:26.312 [info] [githubTitleAndDescriptionProvider] Successfully activated the GitHub.vscode-pull-request-github extension.
2024-05-28 11:33:26.312 [info] [githubTitleAndDescriptionProvider] Successfully registered GitHub PR title and description provider.

[eleanorjboyd]

here I think I was expecting an error or to be able to load the chat extension without my chat participant so I got a bit confused when all chat didn't seem to load.

[eleanorjboyd]

ok update I realized I just can't get any chat to work on the newest install of the mac universal on my machine (mac m2). It doesn't show up but I have version 15.2 for copilot chat. Might be similar to an issue that @digitarald ran into where there is version misalignment on my machine?

[roblourens]

You need Copilot Chat pre-release, because there is no compatible stable yet. Will add that reminder to the TPI