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Summary

  • Sidebar groups (sections) can now be dragged anywhere in their project's list — above, between, and below ungrouped workspaces — instead of being stuck at the bottom. Group membership is now explicit instead of positional.
  • Fixes a pre-existing drag bug from perf(desktop): cut sidebar hover and polling render fan-out #6377 where rows displaced by any sidebar drag (including plain workspace drags on main) visually vanished mid-drag.
  • Fixes Delete group / Ungroup context-menu actions teleporting rows to the top of the project.

Why / Context

Groups were pinned to the bottom by three interlocking behaviors: section drags could only sort against other section headers, the drop handler rebuilt the list as "ungrouped first, then sections", and membership was positional — any ungrouped row rendered below a header was silently absorbed into that group, making "group above an ungrouped row" unrepresentable.

How It Works

  • SidebarDndItems.membership (flat workspace id → flat section id) carries explicit membership through the drag; groupInfo, commit parsing, and the ghost's predicted accent read the map instead of scanning position.
  • Section drag-end collapses the flat list into top-level units (header + members move as one) and arrayMoves among units, ungrouped rows included. A dropped workspace joins the group of the row that ends up directly above it (membershipFromNeighbors); in-place drops restore the pre-drag membership so they write nothing.
  • buildDashboardSidebarProjects no longer absorbs trailing ungrouped rows — interleaved orders round-trip through the existing tabOrder persistence.
  • Drag-feel fixes (all rooted in the perf(desktop): cut sidebar hover and polling render fan-out #6377 collapse wrapper + the layout shift a section pickup causes):
    • The dnd translate now sits outside each row's overflow-hidden collapse wrapper (moved into SortableWorkspaceItem), so displaced rows slide instead of clipping out of view.
    • Section pickups collapse members instantly, use a live-DOM pointer collision, hide the in-list header (the DragOverlay ghost is the drag representation), and render a SectionDragSpacer that keeps the scroller's scrollHeight constant — without it, the pickup shrink clamps scrollTop near the bottom and dnd-kit's cached rects/overlay transform desync (drops landed ~member-count rows off; ghost drifted 96px from the cursor, both measured).
  • deleteSection replaces the deleted group's own slot with its members; moveWorkspaceToSection(null) lands the row directly below its former group.

Manual QA (all driven end-to-end over CDP in the dev app, real trusted input, unstaged layout)

  • Group dragged above / between / below ungrouped rows, both directions — drop lands exactly at the pointer slot (verified numerically: ghost == pointer, gap adjacent, landed index exact)
  • Group ↔ group reorder; collapsed-group drag; empty-group lifecycle (drain by drag, drag empty group, drop a row back in)
  • Workspace into / out of a group by drag (accent + membership persist); local main row always stays on top
  • Pin a grouped row by drag, reorder, unpin back into its group by drag and via context menu (returns to the same slot; sectionId retained while pinned)
  • Context menus: Ungroup lands below its group; Delete group keeps members in place; New group from workspace appends at bottom
  • In-place drop writes nothing (byte-identical collections before/after)
  • Full reload reproduces the exact interleaved order; sidebar state survives across reloads after every scenario
  • Pinned + Sessions lanes re-verified after the row-wrapper restructure (render, reorder, cross-lane drags)
  • Stress battery on final code: 30 rapid random drags (8–18 ms steps), boundary oscillation with ~1 s dwells, full-sidebar autoscroll sweeps into the Pinned zone, 12 drags under induced 120 ms main-thread jank, Escape-cancels — integrity held (14 rows, no orphaned memberships), zero console errors, exact post-stress reload
  • Frame-by-frame visual review of slow drags: rows part around the ghost, no vanishing rows, no double header, WYSIWYG drop

Testing

  • bun run typecheck
  • bun run lint
  • bun test src/renderer/routes/_authenticated (371 pass; includes a new builder test for interleaved layouts)

Design Decisions

  • Explicit membership map instead of positional parsing: positional absorption is what made groups-at-bottom load-bearing; the map lets ungrouped rows live below a group while keeping the drag-into-group gesture positional at drop time only.
  • Live-DOM collision for section drags instead of dnd-kit's rect store: the pickup reflow invalidates cached rects and the scroll compensation double-counts; comparing the raw pointer against untransformed live rects is immune to both (transformed rects would oscillate — the known sidebar-DnD crash class).
  • Spacer instead of animated collapse: keeping scrollHeight constant during the drag removes the scroll clamp entirely, which is what kept the overlay glued to the cursor; the collapse animation was cosmetic and its mid-animation re-measure was itself a source of stale geometry.

Known Limitations

  • Dropping a row at the very end of a project joins the last group (row-above rule); use Ungroup or drop below another ungrouped row to leave it ungrouped — inherent to flat lists without end-of-group markers.
  • SectionDragSpacer assumes the 32 px sidebar row height; if row height changes it degrades to the old clamp behavior (cosmetic), not a failure.
  • Keyboard-sensor sorting shares the fixed handlers but wasn't exercised separately.

Follow-ups

  • Legacy profiles that relied on positional absorption will render those trailing rows as ungrouped (their stored sectionId was always null) — this now shows the persisted truth, but counts in group headers may differ from what those users saw before.

Summary by cubic

Make sidebar groups reorderable anywhere in a project's list by replacing positional membership with an explicit map. This removes the “groups at bottom” constraint, fixes rows vanishing mid‑drag, prevents context‑action teleports, improves multiselect, and avoids stray clicks after canceled drags.

  • Section drags reorder top‑level units (header + members) against ungrouped rows; grouped rows hide during drag, the in‑list header hides, SectionDragSpacer keeps scroll height constant, and collisions use dnd‑kit’s closestCenter.

  • Workspace drops join the group of the row directly above the landing slot; in‑place drops restore pre‑drag membership; the ghost’s accent predicts using the same rule.

  • The sidebar builder no longer absorbs trailing ungrouped rows; interleaved orders round‑trip via existing tabOrder persistence.

  • Context menus: Ungroup lands directly below the former group; Delete group replaces the group’s slot with its members; no‑op when already ungrouped in the same project.

  • Multiselect: the bulk‑actions toolbar is sticky; bulk Ungroup runs back‑to‑front to preserve visual order; collapsing a group prunes hidden members; stale ids drop and additive clicks re‑anchor if the previous anchor is gone.

  • Drag feel: displaced rows no longer clip out of view (transform sits outside the collapse wrapper); mouse activation distance is 5 px; Escape‑canceled drags swallow the next click to prevent navigation.

  • Rollout: profiles that relied on positional absorption will now show those rows as ungrouped; header counts may differ. Limitation: dropping at the very end joins the last group; use Ungroup or drop below an ungrouped row.

Written for commit a715604. Summary will update on new commits.

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  • New Features

    • Improved sidebar drag-and-drop for sections and workspaces.
    • Sections move with their grouped workspaces while preserving layout.
    • Added smoother collapsing, spacing, and visual feedback during drag operations.
    • Bulk actions remain visible while scrolling.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Ungrouped workspaces remain correctly ordered among sections.
    • Ungrouping workspaces or deleting sections better preserves sidebar order.
    • Improved workspace transfers, stale grouping recovery, and bulk ungrouping.
    • Workspace selection now excludes hidden or unavailable items.
    • Prevented accidental navigation after canceled drag operations.

…t list

Groups were stuck at the bottom: section drags could only sort against
other section headers, the drop handler rebuilt the list as "ungrouped
first, then sections", and membership was positional — any ungrouped row
rendered below a header was absorbed into that group, so a group above
an ungrouped row was unrepresentable.

Membership is now explicit in the DnD state (flat ws id -> flat section
id). Section drags reorder top-level units (header + members move as
one) against ungrouped rows; a dropped workspace joins the group of the
row that ends up directly above it; in-place drops restore the pre-drag
membership. The builder no longer absorbs trailing ungrouped rows, so
interleaved orders round-trip through tabOrder persistence.

Drag-feel fixes this surfaced:
- The dnd translate lived inside each row's overflow-hidden collapse
  wrapper (from #6377), so displaced rows translated out of their clip
  box and vanished mid-drag — including during plain workspace drags.
  The wrapper now lives inside SortableWorkspaceItem with the transform
  on the outermost element.
- A section pickup collapses the member rows; the shrink clamps
  scrollTop when scrolled near the bottom and desyncs dnd-kit's cached
  rects and overlay transform (drops landed rows away from the pointer,
  ghost drifted off the cursor). Fixed with an instant drag-collapse, a
  live-DOM pointer collision for section drags, a hidden in-list header
  during the drag (the overlay ghost is the representation), and a
  SectionDragSpacer that keeps scrollHeight constant while members are
  hidden.
deleteSection and moveWorkspaceToSection(null) inserted rows "before the
first section", which was only correct while groups clustered at the
bottom. With groups placeable anywhere, both would teleport rows above
the first group in the project. Deleting a group now replaces its own
top-level slot with its members, and Ungroup lands the row directly
below its former group (no-op when already ungrouped in the same
project; cross-project moves keep the old fallback).
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The sidebar now preserves explicit workspace-to-section membership and interleaved top-level ordering. Section drags move grouped workspaces with their headers. Workspace rows collapse in place, and selection excludes stale or hidden workspace IDs.

Changes

Sidebar drag and ordering

Layer / File(s) Summary
Top-level sidebar ordering
apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/hooks/useDashboardSidebarState/*, apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/_dashboard/components/DashboardSidebar/hooks/useDashboardSidebarData/*, apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/_dashboard/components/DashboardSidebar/hooks/useBulkWorkspaceMoveActions/*
Ungrouped workspaces remain top-level items. Move, ungroup, and section deletion preserve surrounding positions. Tests cover interleaved ordering.
Explicit membership and drag persistence
apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/_dashboard/components/DashboardSidebar/hooks/useSidebarDnd/*
Drag state stores explicit workspace membership. Workspace transfers update membership. Section drags reorder grouped units. Collision detection uses preserved geometry. Persistence receives the resulting membership.
Collapsed rendering and visible selection
apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/_dashboard/components/DashboardSidebar/*, apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/_dashboard/components/DashboardSidebar/components/{SectionDragSpacer,SortableSectionHeader,SortableWorkspaceItem}/*, apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/_dashboard/components/DashboardSidebar/components/DashboardSidebarProjectSection/*, apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/_dashboard/components/DashboardSidebar/components/DashboardSidebarBulkActions/*, apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/_dashboard/components/DashboardSidebar/providers/DashboardSidebarSelectionProvider/*
Workspace rows remain mounted while collapsed and can skip transitions. Section headers become transparent during dragging. A spacer preserves sidebar scroll height. The bulk-actions toolbar stays visible while scrolling. Selection excludes collapsed or stale workspace IDs.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to a7156

The sidebar changes are mergeable with owner awareness that stale workspace IDs may leave selection state inconsistent, potentially affecting selection-dependent UI or bulk actions; follow-up should ensure stale selections are fully cleared.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant DashboardSidebar
  participant useSidebarDnd
  participant WorkspaceRows
  participant ProjectPersistence
  DashboardSidebar->>useSidebarDnd: Read membership and spacer height
  useSidebarDnd->>WorkspaceRows: Collapse grouped workspace rows during section drag
  useSidebarDnd->>ProjectPersistence: Persist reordered sections and membership
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…prune hidden selections

Three multiselect issues surfaced by end-to-end testing:

- The bulk-actions toolbar replaces the Workspaces header inside the
  sidebar scroller, so selecting rows at the bottom of a long list left
  it scrolled ~1400px out of view — selections appeared to have no
  actions at all. It is now sticky at the scroller top with a blurred
  backdrop.
- Bulk Ungroup processed rows in visual order while each row inserts at
  the same slot below its former group, stacking the results reversed.
  Iterate back-to-front so the selection keeps its order.
- Members of a collapsed group stayed selected while hidden, leaving
  invisible rows armed for bulk actions (including Delete). Collapsing a
  group now prunes its rows from the selection via availableWorkspaceIds.
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Added: multiselect fixes (53767fa)

End-to-end testing of the bulk-selection flows against the new grouping surfaced three issues, all fixed in the latest commit:

  1. Bulk toolbar could be completely off-screen. It replaces the Workspaces header inside the sidebar scroller, so selecting rows at the bottom of a long list left it ~1400px above the viewport — selections looked like they had no actions. Now sticky top-0 with a blurred backdrop.
  2. Bulk Ungroup reversed row order (pre-existing): each row inserts at the same slot, so processing in visual order stacked them backwards. Now iterated back-to-front.
  3. Collapsed groups kept invisible selections: a selected member stayed selected (and deletable) after its group was collapsed. Collapsing now prunes hidden rows from the selection.

Verified over CDP (13 scenarios, zero console errors): cmd+click toggle across grouped/ungrouped rows, shift-range spanning a group boundary, shift-range across a collapsed group (hidden members skipped), Escape clears (but not from menus/dialogs), sticky toolbar in view while selecting at the very bottom, bulk move-to-group (order preserved, already-in-target rows skipped), bulk ungroup (lands below the group, order preserved), new-group-from-selection (members moved + inline rename armed), delete dialog open/cancel (nothing deleted), and selection surviving an unrelated drag.

Since collapsing a group prunes its rows from the selection (via
availableWorkspaceIds), the selection is always a subset of the visible
ordered list — the preserveIds merge in selectedIdsInVisualOrder could
no longer be reached outside a single-commit race. Reduce it to an
ordered filter and replace the three preserve-hidden tests with the new
invariant: stale ids are dropped, and an unlisted anchor re-anchors the
next additive click.

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Normalize the toggle result before the empty-state check and cover the regression.

  • apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/_dashboard/components/DashboardSidebar/providers/DashboardSidebarSelectionProvider/workspaceSelection.ts#L62-L75: Filter selected IDs first, then return EMPTY_WORKSPACE_SELECTION when no visible IDs remain.
  • apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/_authenticated/_dashboard/components/DashboardSidebar/providers/DashboardSidebarSelectionProvider/workspaceSelection.test.ts#L132-L155: Add a test for toggling off the final visible workspace while a stale ID remains.
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around lines 62 - 75, Update the toggle branch in workspaceSelection.ts, using
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…d drags

Lower the MouseSensor activation distance from 8px to 5px — enough to
absorb the 1-3px of jitter a real click carries, less dead travel before
the drag engages. The trailing click after an activated drag is already
swallowed by dnd-kit itself (capture-phase document click listener armed
at activation, detached one event loop after the drag ends), verified
end-to-end: in-row drags don't navigate and header drags don't toggle
collapse.

The one case dnd-kit misses is an Escape-cancel with the button still
held: its listener detaches ~50ms after the cancel, and the click fires
on the later release — navigating the row under the cursor. Mirror
dnd-kit's own technique for that case in onDragCancel: swallow the next
click, disarming right after the release so subsequent clicks work.
The custom live-DOM pointer collision existed because a section pickup
used to clamp the scroller's scrollTop, desyncing dnd-kit's rect store
and scroll compensation. SectionDragSpacer has since removed the clamp
at the source and the drag-collapse is instant, so the rect store stays
accurate — dnd-kit's recommended-for-sortables closestCenter (filtered
to the active container) now tracks 1:1, verified at parked positions
(exactly N rows displaced at N slots, ghost pixel-exact on the pointer)
and on exact drops in both directions.
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