Allow for hiding of "Run or Debug..." menu via setting

[dmalan]

Just wanted to re-surface #21562, wherein we proposed a setting via which the "Run or Debug..." menu could be hidden, as I'm afraid I overlooked @brettcannon's reply there:

It seems the biggest issue the Run button causes you is that execution ends in a working terminal. Is that a fair assessment? If so, then would making it so the Run button doesn't lead to a terminal resolve your issue?

In educational contexts, the biggest issue for us is actually that the button is at odds with a pedagogical goal: to ensure that students develop muscle memory using their terminal window, rather than (rationally but educationally suboptimally) adopting a habit of clicking that button instead to run their first Python programs.

Using our own devcontainer.json file for students in Codespaces (via https://cs50.dev), we actually go to great lengths in @cs50 to simplify VS Code's UI in order to scaffold students' learning, hiding UI elements that they don't need (and might otherwise distract or confuse) at semester's start, while still allowing them to re-enable the same manually over time. Cf. https://cs50.dev/devcontainer.json.

We gather from @luabud's comment at #9633 (comment) that the Python extension is now using the VS Code API for the play button, but, per #21562, @gjsjohnmurray actually proposed that:

The Python extension devs ought to be able to add a boolean setting which will do this, e.g. python.showRunAndDebugInEditorTitle, default it to true, then extend the two when clauses here:

vscode-python/package.json

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	"editor/title/run": [
	{
	"command": "python.execInTerminal-icon",
	"group": "navigation@0",
	"title": "%python.command.python.execInTerminalIcon.title%",
	"when": "resourceLangId == python && !isInDiffEditor && !virtualWorkspace"
	},
	{
	"command": "python.debugInTerminal",
	"group": "navigation@1",
	"title": "%python.command.python.debugInTerminal.title%",
	"when": "resourceLangId == python && !isInDiffEditor && !virtualWorkspace"
	}
	],

by appending && config.python.showRunAndDebugInEditorTitle to each of them. See doc.

Might a solution along those lines indeed resonate? As @blhvse also noted in #8837 (comment):

As an instructor that uses python in introductory college courses I would also really like this feature. It would allow me to control how quickly students gain exposure to the higher level features of VS Code by forcing them to run via the command line earlier on.

Thank you!

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Related

#6921, #7034,
#8837, #9633

CC @rongxin-liu @lostintangent

[eleanorjboyd]

Thank you for submitting your feature request and everyone who considered it! Unfortunately, this issue did not receive enough votes over the allotted time, and so we are closing the issue. PRs are welcome so you can create a PR that fixes this if you are passionate about getting this feature across the finish line. Thanks!