Show recent chat sessions in the AI Chat Welcome screen#16894
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Refactor the welcome provider as a ContributionProvider extension point with the main welcome content as the prime contribution. Part of eclipse-theia#16562 Signed-off-by: Christian W. Damus <cdamus@eclipsesource.com>
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Show up to three rows of cards for the most recent chats in the persistent store, if the store is enabled and has chats to show, along with a "Browse all chats..." link. Let the user configure the number of rows to show or choose not to show any recent chats. Fixes eclipse-theia#16562 Signed-off-by: Christian W. Damus <cdamus@eclipsesource.com>
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What it does
Shows recent chat sessions from persistent storage as cards in the Welcome screen of the AI Chat view to get the user started by resuming a previous chat, if applicable. Clicking a card resumes that chat. A "Browse all chats..." link is provided to open the quick picker to see the full history of persisted chats.
A new preference in the Settings lets the user choose the number of rows of cards to show. The default is 3 rows. A value of 0 suppresses the showing of chats in the welcome screen. A maximum of 10 rows seems to me to be plenty and is typical of recents lists in most document-based applications, but is strictly unnecessary; I can remove the limit if reviewers would prefer not to have one.
🆕 The recent session cards seemed likely to be a UI pattern that might be repeated in other "welcome" or overview type content in Theia and Theia-based applications so a simple
Cardcomponent is introduced in Core on which the session cards are based.How to test
For best test coverage, make sure that you have some sessions in the global store (via the global storage scope preference for chat sessions) that are different to what you might have in any workspace.
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