It's hard to create files/folders at the root of the VS Code workspace. Is it possible to add more space to the bottom of the Explorer View?

I have a lot of folders and things in my python folder. How do I make it so that there is a fixed amount of space at the bottom of the Explorer View's treelist, even if it would cause overflow when there otherwise wouldn't be, creating a scrollbar? screenshot.

Strangely, this is supposed to already be part of vanilla VS Code. See Test: top level resource creation in explorer #79800, which was created as the solution to issue tickets like Difficult to create folder in left panel file view if the open folder only contains folder #1043 (pretty much exactly the problem you are describing). I guess that part of that change regressed. I've raised the regression in an issue ticket at The additionalScrollHeight part of #79800 seems to have regressed #190092. My issue ticket is actually probably a duplicate of File list margin is gone in 1.81 #189809, which would indicate that this is a very recent regression (version 1.81 of VS Code), likely caused by Pull Request #178627. The fix for the issue was made in commit a0377f0, which is scheduled for release in the August 2023 release of VS Code.

As for what your root goal is- to create files or folders at the root of the workspace folder, yeah, I feel your pain. The default behaviour of the buttons at the top of the Explorer View create things at the same level of the currently selected file (if a file is selected), or under the currently selected directory (if a directory is selected). On the bright side, the other changes made and which were under test in #79800 including allowing you to press <kbd>esc</kbd> to unfocus list items and put focus on the listing as a whole (which then allows you to use the new file/folder action buttons at the top of the Explorer View to create a file/folder at the root of the tree) still works, so you can use that as a workaround for now.

There's also a related issue ticket: "New file" / "New folder" on file context menu #83693 where it's closed as not planned, and preferred for implementation via extensions, where in that thread, wenfangdu.faster-new is listed as one such extension ^{_{(I have no affiliation with this extension)}}.