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feat(web): add a setting to share the right panel width across threads - #22256
The inline right panel remembers its width per thread (#11310). If you keep it at one size, for example half the window for diffs, you have to drag it again in every thread.
Change
Add an opt-in setting, Settings → Appearance → Interface → Shared panel width. When it is on, ChatView passes no per-thread key to the resize hook, so the hook uses its app-wide key (t3code:preview-panel-width) and a resize in one thread applies to every thread. It is off by default. Per-thread widths stay stored and come back when the setting is turned off. The row has the usual reset button, appears in the changed-settings list and in settings search.
Scope and approval
This is a focused configuration option for an established capability. The right panel already persists its width; the option only chooses whether that width is per thread (current behavior and the default) or shared. It changes no default and adds no workflow.
Requested in the Ideas discussion #16825 (option 1) and in #22037, which was closed as a duplicate of #16825. #13298 made the width shared for everyone, which would undo the per-thread behavior requested in #5548; this keeps per-thread widths as the default.
Verification
vp test run src/components/settings/settingsSearch.test.ts in apps/web: 66 passed, including a new case that "panel width" finds the setting.
vp test run src/settings.test.ts in packages/contracts: 170 passed.
Typecheck for packages/contracts and apps/web, plus lint and format on the changed files: clean.
Manual check on an isolated dev server (web, 1280×800) with a copy of real threads, dragging the panel divider:
Before, on main: thread A resized from 540 to 664 px; thread B stayed at 540; back in A it was 664.
After, setting on: thread A resized from 540 to 414 px; thread B showed 414; back in A it was 414.
After, setting turned off again: each thread returned to its own width (664 and 540).
Not checked: the desktop shell separately (it renders the same web UI) and mobile, which has no resizable right panel.
Settings, before → after
Per-thread width on main (resize in A, switch to B and back)
The inline right panel remembers its width per thread, so anyone who keeps
it at one size has to resize it again in every thread. Add an opt-in
Appearance setting, Shared panel width, that stores one width for all
threads. It is off by default, so per-thread widths keep working as before.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — This PR adds an off-by-default setting that changes the existing panel-width persistence path from per-thread to app-wide when enabled. The change is small and backward-compatible, but the runtime toggle and shared-width behavior lack direct automated coverage, so human review is appropriate.
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Walkthrough
A new Appearance setting controls whether the right-panel width uses app-wide storage or storage scoped to the active thread. The setting is included in the client settings contract and can be reset. The resize hook reads and persists the selected width, including a fallback when storage writes fail.
Changes: Shared panel width
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Summary
Define and expose shared panel width packages/contracts/src/settings.ts, apps/web/src/components/settings/AppearanceSettingsPanel.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsPanels.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/settingsSearch.ts
The client settings schema adds a default-false sharedPanelWidth field, and the patch accepts updates to it. Appearance settings add a switch and reset control. Restore tracking, default restoration, and settings search include the setting.
Read and persist resize width apps/web/src/hooks/useResizableWidth.ts, apps/web/src/hooks/useLocalStorage.ts, apps/web/src/hooks/useResizableWidth.browser.test.tsx
useResizableWidth reads the width through useLocalStorage and uses the result of writeLocalStorageValue to track unsaved widths when writes fail. Browser tests cover storage-event updates and consecutive drags after a storage write failure.
ChatRightPanel accepts an undefined widthStorageKey. ChatView passes the app-wide key when shared panel width is enabled; otherwise, it passes the active-thread-specific key.
pingdotgg/t3code#26607: Changes persistence in the inline right-panel resize path that uses the storage path affected here.
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Merge Risk: Minimal · up to af779
The shared-width setting is ready to merge after normal checks.
Security architecture risk: Minimal · up to 06142
The option changes only a client-side layout preference, remains off by default, and preserves existing per-thread widths. The reviewed paths do not introduce new access to thread contents, server configuration, or privileged operations.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The newly shared state is limited to panel width across threads using the same client storage context. The traced flow does not extend that sharing to server-side thread data or another client's settings.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The new field is boolean-validated and follows the existing client-settings persistence path. Browser storage and desktop client-settings persistence remain distinct from environment-targeted server settings writes; the change does not add a new privileged operation.
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Upstream moved the right panel width into ChatRightPanel and the
Appearance rows into AppearanceSettingsPanel. The shared width setting now
lives in those places. The search route test it extended was removed
upstream, so that assertion is dropped.
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Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/ChatView.tsx:
- Line 3817: Update useResizableWidth to subscribe mounted panels to changes in
their shared width storage key and apply updates to the current width state, so
resizing in one browser tab synchronizes other open panels.
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useResizableWidth read storage only on mount or when its key changed, so
with Shared panel width on, a resize in one tab or window left the others
at the old width until reload, and their next drag overwrote it. The hook
now reads the width through useLocalStorage, which follows changes to the
key in this tab and in others.
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Review comments at @apps/web/src/hooks/useResizableWidth.ts:
- Line 62: Update the width commit path around writeLocalStorageValue so the
committed width is retained in memory even when the storage write fails; add a
test that verifies a subsequent drag starts from that committed width when
persistence is unavailable.
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Problem
The inline right panel remembers its width per thread (#11310). If you keep it at one size, for example half the window for diffs, you have to drag it again in every thread.
Change
Add an opt-in setting, Settings → Appearance → Interface → Shared panel width. When it is on,
ChatViewpasses no per-thread key to the resize hook, so the hook uses its app-wide key (t3code:preview-panel-width) and a resize in one thread applies to every thread. It is off by default. Per-thread widths stay stored and come back when the setting is turned off. The row has the usual reset button, appears in the changed-settings list and in settings search.Scope and approval
This is a focused configuration option for an established capability. The right panel already persists its width; the option only chooses whether that width is per thread (current behavior and the default) or shared. It changes no default and adds no workflow.
Requested in the Ideas discussion #16825 (option 1) and in #22037, which was closed as a duplicate of #16825. #13298 made the width shared for everyone, which would undo the per-thread behavior requested in #5548; this keeps per-thread widths as the default.
Verification
vp test run src/components/settings/settingsSearch.test.tsinapps/web: 66 passed, including a new case that "panel width" finds the setting.vp test run src/settings.test.tsinpackages/contracts: 170 passed.packages/contractsandapps/web, plus lint and format on the changed files: clean.main: thread A resized from 540 to 664 px; thread B stayed at 540; back in A it was 664.Settings, before → after
Per-thread width on
main(resize in A, switch to B and back)before-per-thread.mp4
Shared width with the setting on (same steps)
after-shared.mp4
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