> why it got that heated :(.
It wasn't meant to be heated, just badly misunderstood behaviour by different systems, and neither of us having the same system ;-), and Cinnamon and XFCE behave different so we have misunderstandings, so we had to get ourselves having a suitable understanding. Cinnamon just needs wider CSS entry so users can resize the sidebar, but I still don't know why XFCE doesn't?
> So https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/4023 is a good countermeasure to just help users to get the panes back easily, even if it is not Geany's fault.
As I said above "Perhaps you could make https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/4023 closer to Vscode as you suggested, it not do resize if it hides, that would be useful for the user instead of trying to get a width again after its unhidden."
Just the first solution in a PR doesn't have to be the best one until we finish discussions.