Better history UI

[tomasz-stefaniak]

Description

UI improvements

Checklist

• The base branch of this PR is dev, rather than main
• The relevant docs, if any, have been updated or created

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[TyDunn]

This is looking really good! Fits with the rest of Continue much better. Here are some other thoughts:

• I still don't understand the "Show All" button. I also always forget that it only shows sessions from my current workspace by default. When I open Continue without a workspace, it then gives me the confusing "No past sessions found" even when I just had some sessions. I need to click "Show All" to reveal them
• I think we should make the "Open New Window" icon smaller to better fit with the other icons in the top right
• I think we should only have one way to go full screen

[Patrick-Erichsen]

Agreed, looks really solid! I wouldn't be opposed to just making the history "Show all" by default. Seems sensible.

[sestinj]

My feedback is just to add a faint (0.5px, light gray) line to separate the history from the full screen chat (like in above scenario)

[tomasz-stefaniak]

• I still don't understand the "Show All" button. I also always forget that it only shows sessions from my current workspace by default. When I open Continue without a workspace, it then gives me the confusing "No past sessions found" even when I just had some sessions. I need to click "Show All" to reveal them

Agreed, looks really solid! I wouldn't be opposed to just making the history "Show all" by default. Seems sensible.

I agree, I also find that confusing. I didn't realize that's what the behavior was and it just seemed kind of random. I'd also rather see all by default, and maybe in the future we can add filters?

I think we should make the "Open New Window" icon smaller to better fit with the other icons in the top right

I'll look into it, although as far as I know we don't set the sizes of these icons, they're all VSCode defaults. I might be wrong though.

I think we should only have one way to go full screen

I think that would make sense, I just didn't want to gut existing features. Do you think we should get rid of this full screen view then?

My feedback is just to add a faint (0.5px, light gray) line to separate the history from the full screen chat (like in above scenario)

I'll look into it. What theme is this so that I can debug locally? There is a gray line but it's not visible on this theme so I might have accidentally used the wrong variable.

[TyDunn]

Yes, let's go with all by default for now and add more filters later

If we don't set size, then I think the padding should be increased around the icon if possible

Yes, I think we should pick one and roll with it

[sestinj]

Given we're picking one full screen option, don't worry about the icon sizing (not worth us making a custom image, which is what would be required), just use the one we've previously been using

Probably use the lightGray variable. It's exactly in the middle of grayscale so should show up on any background (# 888)

[tomasz-stefaniak]

Summary of the changes:

• Fixed the border but used a different color. lightGray was very harsh on a black background
• Retained only one full screen mode, using the old icon
• Removed "*" / clear all from search to display all workspaces results by default. We can restore some of these filters later, under a dedicated menu