Major UI refresh: sidebar redesign, theme expansion, and chat performance optimizations (#706)

## Summary
Complete sidebar redesign and comprehensive UI polish pass with performance optimizations, theme system refinements, and desktop integration improvements.

## Key Changes

**Sidebar & Navigation Redesign**
- Redesigned sessions sidebar layout with unified button primitives
- Added activity sections with project grouping and improved session organization
- Refined sidebar corners, spacing, and visual hierarchy
- Removed NavRail component in favor of streamlined sidebar
- Stabilized sessions bar toggle position in fullscreen mode

**Performance Optimizations**
- Reduced chat streaming CPU usage and storage churn
- Optimized task tool polling and live timers with debouncing
- Prevented chat state races and reduced background request load
- Debounced draft writes and coalesced session reloads
- Optimized message store updates and turn tracking

**Theme & Visual System**
- Added theme-aware window corners (desktop) and border radius tokens
- Introduced glassmorphism effects on desktop sidebar
- Added backdrop blur to UI elements

**Chat Experience**
- Added session-based permission auto-accept toggle in chat input
- Polished permission shield UX with improved icon sizing and spacing
- Fixed chat scroll-to-bottom behavior and timeline tracking
- Enhanced tool output display with better path label detection
- Removed duplicate draft context details in chat header
- Added text selection menu to chat messages

**Git Improvements**
- Refreshed git history visual design with cleaner dividers
- Added remote removal action in sync selector
- Stabilized git polling to prevent excessive requests
- Improved tool output rendering for git operations

**Settings & Panels**
- Fixed mobile scrolling on settings pages
- Made outside-click settings close instantly
- Reduced settings load churn and CPU spikes
- Improved services dropdown layout and spacing
- Softened panel resize handles

**Desktop Integration**
- Synced macOS window theme with app theme
- Restored window dragging in sidebar header zones
- Fixed system window corners on macOS
- Improved header session metadata and action controls

**Button & Component Standardization**
- Unified button primitives across all components
- Standardized destructive action patterns
- Removed unused button variants (button-large, button-small)
- Aligned context tab close hit areas

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Co-authored-by: Iuliia Ivashko <yulia.ivashko@gmail.com>
This commit is contained in:
Bohdan Triapitsyn
2026-03-20 01:01:03 +02:00
committed by GitHub
co-authored by Iuliia Ivashko
parent 359879153a
commit 321cc7252a
222 changed files with 8575 additions and 5456 deletions
@@ -148,8 +148,8 @@ const SessionFolderItemBase = <TSessionNode,>({
<div
ref={droppableRef}
className={cn(
'group/folder flex items-center justify-between gap-1.5 py-1 min-w-0 rounded-sm',
'hover:bg-interactive-hover/50 cursor-pointer',
'group/folder relative flex items-center justify-between gap-1.5 py-1 min-w-0 rounded-md',
'cursor-pointer',
isDropTarget && 'bg-primary/10 ring-1 ring-inset ring-primary/30',
)}
onClick={renaming ? undefined : onToggle}
@@ -167,7 +167,12 @@ const SessionFolderItemBase = <TSessionNode,>({
}
aria-label={isCollapsed ? `Expand folder ${folder.name}` : `Collapse folder ${folder.name}`}
>
<div className="min-w-0 flex items-center gap-1.5 pl-1.5 flex-1">
<div className={cn(
'min-w-0 flex items-center gap-1.5 pl-1.5 flex-1 transition-[padding]',
archivedBucket
? (mobileVariant ? 'pr-7' : 'group-hover/folder:pr-7 group-focus-within/folder:pr-7')
: '',
)}>
<FolderIcon className={cn('h-3.5 w-3.5 flex-shrink-0', isDropTarget ? 'text-primary' : 'text-muted-foreground')} />
{renaming ? (
@@ -243,15 +248,16 @@ const SessionFolderItemBase = <TSessionNode,>({
</div>
{/* Action buttons */}
{!renaming && !hideActions ? (
{!renaming && (!hideActions || archivedBucket) ? (
<div className="flex items-center gap-0.5 px-0.5">
<div
className={cn(
'flex items-center gap-0.5 transition-opacity',
mobileVariant ? 'opacity-100' : 'opacity-0 group-hover/folder:opacity-100 group-focus-within/folder:opacity-100',
archivedBucket && 'absolute right-0.5 top-1/2 z-10 -translate-y-1/2 px-0',
)}
>
{onNewSession ? (
{!archivedBucket && onNewSession ? (
<button
type="button"
onClick={(event) => {
@@ -266,7 +272,7 @@ const SessionFolderItemBase = <TSessionNode,>({
</button>
) : null}
{/* Only allow sub-folders at depth 0 (one level deep max) */}
{onNewSubFolder && depth === 0 ? (
{!archivedBucket && onNewSubFolder && depth === 0 ? (
<button
type="button"
onClick={(event) => {
@@ -280,17 +286,19 @@ const SessionFolderItemBase = <TSessionNode,>({
<RiFolderAddLine className="h-3.5 w-3.5" />
</button>
) : null}
<button
type="button"
onClick={(event) => {
event.stopPropagation();
handleStartRename();
}}
className="inline-flex h-6 w-6 items-center justify-center rounded-md text-muted-foreground hover:text-foreground hover:bg-interactive-hover/50 focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-primary/50"
aria-label={`Rename folder ${folder.name}`}
>
<RiPencilAiLine className="h-3.5 w-3.5" />
</button>
{!archivedBucket ? (
<button
type="button"
onClick={(event) => {
event.stopPropagation();
handleStartRename();
}}
className="inline-flex h-6 w-6 items-center justify-center rounded-md text-muted-foreground hover:text-foreground hover:bg-interactive-hover/50 focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-primary/50"
aria-label={`Rename folder ${folder.name}`}
>
<RiPencilAiLine className="h-3.5 w-3.5" />
</button>
) : null}
<button
type="button"
onClick={(event) => {
@@ -298,7 +306,7 @@ const SessionFolderItemBase = <TSessionNode,>({
onDelete();
}}
className="inline-flex h-6 w-6 items-center justify-center rounded-md text-muted-foreground hover:text-destructive hover:bg-interactive-hover/50 focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-primary/50"
aria-label={`Delete folder ${folder.name}`}
aria-label={archivedBucket ? `Delete archived sessions in folder ${folder.name}` : `Delete folder ${folder.name}`}
>
<RiDeleteBinLine className="h-3.5 w-3.5" />
</button>