Mohamed Boudra
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* feat(app): unify Explorer tabs and refine interface styling Give Explorer the workspace tab controls while keeping launcher choices separate from drag-and-drop support. Upgrade Lucide and set a shared icon stroke width for consistent styling. Reduce the desktop composer bottom inset to align the action row with its corners. * fix(app): show active Explorer tabs in foreground The shared row coupled foreground styling to keyboard shortcut ownership. Separate those concerns so Explorer can highlight its active tab while Cmd+T remains with the workspace pane. * fix(app): refine Explorer close controls and launch options * test(app): respect singleton Files in Explorer plugin workflow * test(server): trim unused setup from no-track checkout regression * test(app): count visible main tab rows after pane moves
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Explorer sidebar and side pane
The Explorer sidebar and the side pane share panel implementations, but they have different shell contracts.
| Surface | Purpose | Lifecycle |
|---|---|---|
| Explorer sidebar | Files and Changes navigation | Cmd+E shows or hides the dedicated dock |
| Side pane | Ordinary workspace content | Created and closed like any workspace pane |
Panel host contract
Every desktop panel registers its supported PaneHost values and presentation. Launchers derive
fixed-target labels and icons from that registration, filter by host, and never substitute one
panel type for another. Tab moves reject unsupported destinations, and placement resolves only to
a compatible pane.
Files and Changes are the Explorer defaults. Their panel manifests mark them as singletons,
so a pane’s + menu omits each while that pane already contains it. Closing one makes its menu
item available again. Other compatible tabs, including agents, terminals, files, and diffs,
can move between Explorer and main panes.
Keep panel implementations independent of either shell. WorkspacePanelHost owns mounting and
retention, while each shell owns its tabs, focus, dragging, resizing, and shortcuts.
Explorer sidebar
packages/app/src/workspace-tabs/explorer-sidebar.ts owns show, hide, toggle, and view selection.
On desktop, the shell is rendered outside the workspace split canvas so it divides the full
workspace, including the header. It has its own persisted width and resize handle. Main-pane splits
never read or modify that width.
packages/app/src/workspace-tabs/open-supporting-view.ts owns semantic Changes and pull-request
opens. Compact and wide native layouts select the matching Explorer tab. Desktop Changes opens
follow the shared diff preference. Desktop pull requests use their Main panel, On the side, or
Explorer sidebar setting. Automatic PR discovery follows that preference once per workspace without
interrupting the user's work. Closing the tab opts that workspace out of future automatic opens,
even for a different PR; moving or reordering it remains the user's choice.
Callers request the content and never choose the shell.
The composer Changes pill is a two-stage desktop action: it first reveals Explorer on Changes, then
routes later presses to the working diff through the shared diff preference.
The persisted layout still contains the Explorer pane so tabs survive reloads. The renderer removes
that pane from the workspace split tree and docks it separately. Persisted identifiers retain the
literal "explorer" pane id and explorerPaneIdByWorkspace key for compatibility.
Explorer uses the shared workspace tab row and ordinary tab context menus. Files and Changes hide their close buttons through the panel manifest; close them from the tab context menu. Other tabs reveal the close control on hover. The + menu opens compatible panels in the dock and omits Agent and terminal profiles. Agents and terminals can still be dragged into Explorer. Bulk-close actions apply only to the dock's tabs. Explorer tabs can be reordered and dragged between compatible panes, but the dock cannot be split or maximized. Selecting an Explorer tab does not change workspace focus.
Cmd+E shows or hides Explorer without changing its selected view. Compact layouts use the combined
full-screen Explorer overlay for Changes, Files, and pull requests, and close it after a file opens. Compact Changes has no tree rail; its overview is the Jump to file action (packages/app/src/git/jump-to-file/), a sheet over the same changed-files tree the desktop rail renders.
Wide native layouts without pane splits use the same combined content in a resizable inline dock;
opening a file leaves that dock visible. Both presentations keep their selection in the panel store
and reuse the layout store's per-workspace Explorer width. They do not create a second Explorer
lifecycle.
Side pane
packages/app/src/workspace-tabs/open-beside.ts owns content opened beside the user's work. The
layout store remembers one ordinary pane per workspace. The first side open creates a full-height
right split around the workspace root; later side opens reuse it.
Removing a pane clears its remembered id; a later side open creates a new pane. The last visible ordinary pane stays when its final tab closes and shows the New launcher. An empty workspace does not automatically create an agent draft tab; choosing Agent opens one. Explorer cannot replace the workspace canvas, even when visible. Restoring a saved layout enforces the same rule while preserving Explorer and saved tab content. There is no hidden side-pane lifecycle.
Placement intent still controls existing tabs:
| Mode | New target | Existing target |
|---|---|---|
pane |
opens in the requested pane | moves to the requested pane |
prefer |
opens in the requested pane | stays where the user placed it |
focused |
opens in the focused pane | focuses it where it already lives |
ambient |
opens in a compatible pane | focuses it where it already lives |
Explicit Open to Side uses pane. Implicit opens use prefer, so a preference affects only a
new target and never yanks an existing tab out of a user-selected pane.
Routing preferences
Desktop Settings → Layout → Open location has independent Main panel or On the side choices for Explorer Files, diffs, chat files, files opened from diffs, and subagents. They default to Main panel. Mobile ignores them.
Pull requests have a three-way open location: Main panel, On the side, or Explorer sidebar. Explorer sidebar is the default. Compact layouts always open pull requests in Explorer regardless of this desktop preference.
Panels request an implicit open through the narrow openPreferredTarget(target, source) pane
contract. Entry points outside panels use openPreferredWorkspaceTarget. Do not branch on a
specific shell inside a panel.