3 Commits
Author SHA1 Message Date
Bohdan TriapitsynandIuliia Ivashko 321cc7252a 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>
2026-03-20 01:01:03 +02:00
Bohdan Triapitsyn 7d99aea6cc Enhance session sidebar with PR worktree support (#342)
* feat: refactored sessions sidebar to be workspaces centric

- Add createWorktreeOnly helper and status checks
- Add createWorktreeOnly to create a standalone worktree for the active project
- Show error toasts when no active project or not a Git repository
- Refresh session list and show success toast with created worktree details

* feat: show attention indicator and status marker in SessionSidebar

- Show unread attention indicator for sessions with pending updates
- Display status marker combining streaming and unread indicators in the session row
- Introduce attention diamond pulse animation and associated CSS for the new indicator

* fix(SessionSidebar): reserve header actions space when repo state is known

* chore(doc): add PR status colors to custom themes
2026-02-07 03:57:46 +02:00
Bohdan Triapitsyn ddedc02687 feat: introduced a token-based theming system across the UI
* feat: added themes system

* feat: smart sidebar auto-hide for files/diff tabs + lower files sidebar threshold

* feat: added Checkbox component and update theming

- Add reusable Checkbox component for toggles across UI
- Replace several inputs with Checkbox in settings and commands panels
- Add DiffIcon and apply surface/border theming to key UI areas

* feat: Add convert-vscode-theme.cjs to convert VS Code themes to OpenChamber format

* refactor: remove unused permission logic from ChatInput

- Remove unused permission rules parsing logic from ChatInput
- Memoize renderTheme in DiffWorkerProvider to avoid unnecessary recalculations
- Remove forceOpaque helper in vscode theme adapter

* fix: guard VSCode theme loading in MarkdownRenderer

* feat: add custom user themes loading and reload

- Load user themes from ~/.config/openchamber/themes at runtime
- Expose /api/config/themes to fetch custom themes
- Allow theme reloading from Settings → Theme → Reload themes in the UI
2026-02-01 18:29:34 +02:00