Misc UI Discrepencies

[bryce-hoehn]

This is just a running list of differences I noticed between VSCode and SideX's UI. I'm not sure how many of these are intentional vs. bugs, just documenting them for reference.

Overview

VSCode:

Theme: Dark 2026

SideX:

Theme: Dark 2026

• Font size / spacing in Sidex is smaller, and possibly a different font? Seems to only affect the side menus, not the editor.
• Theme colors in Sidex don't match up correctly
• Top menu buttons have different spacing
• The top search bar in VSCode shows the workspace folder name aligned left, whereas Sidex shows "open file - workdir" aligned center (I actually like this change)

Source Control

VSCode:

SideX:

• SideX doesn't seem to be aware that this is a new branch?

File Menu

VSCode:

SideX:

• Several missing menu items

Settings

VSCode

SideX

• Haven't dug too deep into the settings differences. This is just to show that both have the same font settings set.

File System Integration

VSCode:

SideX:

• VSCode correctly picks up the Dolphin file explorer on KDE, whereas SideX defaults to Gnome

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Tested on Fedora KDE, with the RPM build from #59

Both have all extensions disabled.

I think this is a really promising project, and these are all pretty minor. The only discrepancies that kind of bothered me are the theme color differences and the font differences.

[am05mhz]

to be fair, SideX is based on VSCodium, not the full VS Code, so i think it would be more appropriate to compare with VSCodium instead of VS Code