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fix(web): keep the turn minimap inside the visible chat area - #21828
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The minimap rail capped its height at calc(100vh - 18rem), a window measurement. The timeline column is shorter than that whenever the terminal drawer is open or the window is short, and it runs behind the composer overlay, so the centered rail spilled over the header, the composer and the terminal. The minimap now ends at the composer's top edge (the inset ChatView already measures) and the rail caps at its own box minus room for the previous/next buttons.
…de it Below 96px between the header and the composer the rail cap reached zero and every tick stacked on one point, so the minimap now stays hidden until there is room for the rail and both buttons. Previews for ticks in the lower half grew past the rail's bottom edge onto the composer. They now anchor their bottom edge to the tick, and previews in the upper half anchor their top edge, so they always grow toward the middle of the rail.
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Issue #15461 requires the conversation bars to stop overfilling and breaking into other UI. MessagesTimeline now measures the timeline height, subtracts contentInsetEndAdjustment, and hides the mi… |
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The changed files are limited to minimap layout logic, minimap integration, and tests for those behaviors. The height cap, visibility threshold, button clearance, and preview anchoring directly suppor… |
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#15461requires the conversation bars to stop overfilling and breaking into other UI.MessagesTimelinenow measures the timeline height, subtractscontentInsetEndAdjustment, and hides the minimap below 96px of available space.TimelineMinimapends at the composer inset. Its height cap uses the minimap box minus 64px for the navigation buttons. Preview placement also keeps lower previews above the composer. Browser tests cover rail bounds, the short-area hide condition, and lower preview bounds. The PR reports 68 browser tests and 171 unit tests passing.
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The changed files are limited to minimap layout logic, minimap integration, and tests for those behaviors. The height cap, visibility threshold, button clearance, and preview anchoring directly support issue
#15461. No unrelated feature or product-area changes are shown.
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Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.ts:
- Line 355: Update the preview positioning logic near the index-based
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Keep short-rail previews inside the chat area.
When only 96px is available, the rail is 32px high. A preview with a reply excerpt can be taller than the remaining space on either side of its midpoint. The fixed 0% or -100% translation then places the preview over the composer or above the chat area. Position the preview from its measured bounds, or constrain it when there is insufficient space. Add a short-area browser case to cover the result.
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Review comment at @apps/web/src/components/chat/MessagesTimeline.logic.ts at
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Update the preview positioning logic near the index-based translation so it
accounts for the preview’s measured height and the available chat area, keeping
previews within the chat area when the rail is short; add a browser case for the
96px short-area scenario.
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Problem
The turn minimap on the left of the chat capped its height at
calc(100vh - 18rem), a window measurement. The chat column is shorter than that whenever the terminal drawer is open or the window is short, and it runs behind the composer overlay. In a long thread the centered rail ran up into the header, through the composer, and down to the terminal. #14383 put the terminal drawer above the minimap, but the rail still overlaps the header and the composer.Closes #15461.
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Scope and approval
This fixes #15461, which a maintainer triaged and reproduced on
main. The triage listed "size the rail from the actual visible message area (between the header and the composer)" as one fix option, and that is the option I went with. I left tick density in very long threads (#16248) alone, since it's a separate problem.Verification
Before and after in a dev build: a seeded thread with 120 turns, 1280x800 window, terminal drawer open.
Measured positions (y in CSS px; the header ends at 52, the composer starts at 356, the terminal starts at 520):
With the terminal closed, the minimap spans 52 to 628 and the composer starts at 636.
A preview for the second-to-last tick spans 204 to 314, inside the minimap box:
At 1280x560 with the terminal open, about 56px is free above the composer and the minimap is hidden. It comes back when the window grows.
Tests, in
MessagesTimeline.browser.test.tsx(real Chromium layout) andMessagesTimeline.logic.test.ts:vp test runpasses for both files (68 browser tests, 171 unit tests). Lint and the web typecheck are clean.I did not check the mobile app, which has no minimap, or the desktop shell beyond the web build it wraps.
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