
Bohdan TriapitsynandIuliia Ivashko
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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>
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