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feat(desktop): bold the sidebar row name when it needs attention - #9576
The only signal that a sidebar workspace or session wants attention is a 6px status dot. Down a list of 10–18 rows, amber (working), yellow (needs input) and green (finished, unread) are close in hue and luminance at that size, so finding the rows that need you means inspecting each dot in turn.
This carries the state on the row name as well — the largest, highest-contrast object in the row. Weight is processed preattentively, so the rows pop out at a glance, and nothing moves: the sidebar order the user chose is their mental map of what is in flight, and sorting the waiting ones to the top would trade a scanning problem for a recall problem.
DashboardSidebarWorkspaceStatusProvider now publishes needsAttention next to isUnread: unread (a manual "Mark as unread", or a terminal in review/failed) or an agent sitting on permission. working is excluded; an agent that is still going asks for nothing. The active row, a bulk-selected row and a still-creating row are never emphasized, since opening a workspace is what acknowledges review.
Triage on #9575 pointed out that isUnread and the dock badge's set (useV2AttentionWorkspaceCount) are not the same — isUnread leaves out permission, and the badge does not see the host-reported review/failed status the provider adds for hostUrl === null targets. Computing the row's emphasis in the row would have made a third set, so the provider owns the one value and the row reads it.
ChannelRow and ThreadsRow in this same sidebar already render unread as font-semibold + full-strength text-foreground. This uses the same two classes, so the sidebar speaks one language. The dot is untouched — redundant coding, not a replacement — and weight survives red–green color vision deficiency, which the green/amber/yellow triple does not.
One row component (DashboardSidebarExpandedWorkspaceRow) renders project workspace rows, pinned rows and the top-level Sessions rows, so this covers all three. The collapsed sidebar shows no name, so DashboardSidebarCollapsedWorkspaceButton is unchanged and unaffected.
Also fixed, because this change exposes it: MarqueeText measured its overflow only when the container resized or title changed. A name turning bold is wider inside an unchanged container, so a long bold name would have scrolled by a stale distance or stopped scrolling. The ResizeObserver now watches the text element too.
No new strings, so no catalog updates. No new setting. Happy to put it behind an Appearance toggle if you would rather it be opt-in.
How I tested it
bun run lint — clean; bun run typecheck — 42/42 tasks pass.
cd apps/desktop && bun run test — 9534 pass, 0 fail, including a new unit test for the emphasis rule (emphasizeWorkspaceRowName).
Visual: rendered the real DashboardSidebarExpandedWorkspaceRow with six rows (review / working / permission / idle / failed / idle) and captured headless Chrome screenshots before and after the change. The Storybook story and its stubs were scaffolding for the capture and are not part of this PR.
I could not run the full desktop app end-to-end: ./.paradev/setup.local.sh needs Docker, which is not available on this machine. The screenshots below are the real component, not the app window.
Before — state lives only in the dot:
After — unread / needs-input rows carry it in the name:
Checklist
PR title follows conventional commits (type(scope): subject)
bun run lint and bun run typecheck pass (CI fails on lint warnings too)
"Allow edits from maintainers" is checked on fork PRs
I have signed the CLA (the bot asks on your first PR)
The only mark for "this workspace wants you" was a 6px status dot, which
does not survive a glance down a long sidebar. Carry the state on the row
name as well — the largest, highest-contrast object in the row — so the
rows that need attention pop out of the list without moving.
The emphasized set matches what the dock badge already counts: unread
(a manual mark, or a terminal in review/failed) or an agent waiting on an
answer. Unread channel and thread rows in the same sidebar already render
this way, so the sidebar now speaks one language. The dot stays: this is
redundant coding, not a replacement.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The sidebar now passes unread state to expanded workspace rows. The row uses unread state and workspace status to identify attention, except when the row is active, selected, or being created. Rows that need attention use foreground text and semibold weight.
Adds and tests a helper that returns whether a row needs attention. Unread and permission-status rows need attention unless they are active, selected, or being created.
Wire attention state to row styling apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/_dashboard/components/DashboardSidebar/components/DashboardSidebarWorkspaceItem/DashboardSidebarWorkspaceItem.tsx, apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/_dashboard/components/DashboardSidebar/components/DashboardSidebarWorkspaceItem/components/DashboardSidebarExpandedWorkspaceRow/DashboardSidebarExpandedWorkspaceRow.tsx
Passes unread state to the expanded row. The row uses foreground text and semibold weight when the helper reports that attention is needed.
The sidebar emphasis change has no identified functional blocker. The reported contributor CLA failure still needs to be cleared before merging.
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The title follows conventional commit format and clearly describes the main change: bolding sidebar row names when they need attention.
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For [#9575], the row uses the existing unread flag and workspaceStatus === "permission" to determine attention. workspaceRowNeedsAttention excludes active, selected, and create-pending rows. `Dash…
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All changes support [#9575]: the attention predicate, its unit tests, unread-state wiring, and the row-name styling implement the requested behavior. The diff shows no unrelated changes.
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For [#9575], the row uses the existing unread flag and workspaceStatus === "permission" to determine attention. workspaceRowNeedsAttention excludes active, selected, and create-pending rows. DashboardSidebarExpandedWorkspaceRow applies font-semibold and text-foreground only to attention rows; it leaves the status dot and row ordering unchanged. DashboardSidebarWorkspaceItem passes isUnread, and the Sessions section uses the same item. Unit tests cover unread, permission, working, quiet, active, selected, and create-pending cases.
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Triage on ParadevAI#9575: the row's `isUnread` and the dock badge's attention set
are not the same — `isUnread` leaves out `permission`, and the badge does
not see the host-reported review/failed status. Computing the row's
emphasis from `isUnread || permission` would have been a third set.
The provider now publishes `needsAttention` next to `isUnread`, and the
row renders from that, so the badge and the row cannot drift apart.
`MarqueeText` measured its overflow only when the container resized or the
title changed. A name turning bold widens the text inside an unchanged
container, so the observer now watches the text element too; without it a
long bold name would scroll by a stale distance, or stop scrolling.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What & why
Closes #9575.
The only signal that a sidebar workspace or session wants attention is a 6px status dot. Down a list of 10–18 rows,
amber(working),yellow(needs input) andgreen(finished, unread) are close in hue and luminance at that size, so finding the rows that need you means inspecting each dot in turn.This carries the state on the row name as well — the largest, highest-contrast object in the row. Weight is processed preattentively, so the rows pop out at a glance, and nothing moves: the sidebar order the user chose is their mental map of what is in flight, and sorting the waiting ones to the top would trade a scanning problem for a recall problem.
DashboardSidebarWorkspaceStatusProvidernow publishesneedsAttentionnext toisUnread: unread (a manual "Mark as unread", or a terminal inreview/failed) or an agent sitting onpermission.workingis excluded; an agent that is still going asks for nothing. The active row, a bulk-selected row and a still-creating row are never emphasized, since opening a workspace is what acknowledgesreview.Triage on #9575 pointed out that
isUnreadand the dock badge's set (useV2AttentionWorkspaceCount) are not the same —isUnreadleaves outpermission, and the badge does not see the host-reportedreview/failedstatus the provider adds forhostUrl === nulltargets. Computing the row's emphasis in the row would have made a third set, so the provider owns the one value and the row reads it.ChannelRowandThreadsRowin this same sidebar already render unread asfont-semibold+ full-strengthtext-foreground. This uses the same two classes, so the sidebar speaks one language. The dot is untouched — redundant coding, not a replacement — and weight survives red–green color vision deficiency, which the green/amber/yellow triple does not.One row component (
DashboardSidebarExpandedWorkspaceRow) renders project workspace rows, pinned rows and the top-level Sessions rows, so this covers all three. The collapsed sidebar shows no name, soDashboardSidebarCollapsedWorkspaceButtonis unchanged and unaffected.Also fixed, because this change exposes it:
MarqueeTextmeasured its overflow only when the container resized ortitlechanged. A name turning bold is wider inside an unchanged container, so a long bold name would have scrolled by a stale distance or stopped scrolling. TheResizeObservernow watches the text element too.No new strings, so no catalog updates. No new setting. Happy to put it behind an Appearance toggle if you would rather it be opt-in.
How I tested it
bun run lint— clean;bun run typecheck— 42/42 tasks pass.cd apps/desktop && bun run test— 9534 pass, 0 fail, including a new unit test for the emphasis rule (emphasizeWorkspaceRowName).DashboardSidebarExpandedWorkspaceRowwith six rows (review / working / permission / idle / failed / idle) and captured headless Chrome screenshots before and after the change. The Storybook story and its stubs were scaffolding for the capture and are not part of this PR.I could not run the full desktop app end-to-end:
./.paradev/setup.local.shneeds Docker, which is not available on this machine. The screenshots below are the real component, not the app window.Before — state lives only in the dot:
After — unread / needs-input rows carry it in the name:
Checklist
type(scope): subject)bun run lintandbun run typecheckpass (CI fails on lint warnings too)🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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