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Changing how the sidebar looks means leaving it: grouping by project is under Settings → Labs, and project order and the Working section are under Settings → General. The legacy sidebar had a ↕ menu in its header for this, which went away with it in #21039.

This adds a View options menu next to the project filter in the sidebar header:

  • Group by project toggles the boring sidebar, the same setting as Settings → Labs → Boring sidebar (group by project).
  • Working section (ungrouped view) or Two-line rows (grouped view): only the one that applies to the current view is shown.
  • Sort projects: Last user message, Created at, or Manual.

Each control writes the same client setting as its Settings row, so the two stay in sync and nothing new is stored. The project-order labels moved next to the menu so Settings and the menu share one copy. docs/user/thread-sidebar.md now mentions the menu next to the Settings paths. Web and desktop only. Mobile groups by project in its own way, and the boring sidebar is web/desktop-only.

Proposed in Ideas discussion #32991 (point 2 of this comment on #21039). That discussion has no maintainer approval yet. I'm opening this so there's something concrete to look at. Happy to close or rescope if you'd rather not have it. Open question: Group by project is still a Labs beta, so you may prefer to keep that toggle in Settings only and ship just sorting and the Working section here.

Before / after

Before After: menu, inbox view After: menu, grouped view

The sort order takes effect right away. docs-site has the newest user message but was added before acme-web and billing-api:

Grouped, Last user message Grouped, Created at

Verification

Rebased onto current main. That carried two things the original branch predated: main moved the project-order labels behind msg() for translation (kept on the moved copy), and #33131 removed the legacy-sidebar opt-in, so the menu no longer writes legacySidebarEnabled.

  • vp run check:changed on the rebased head: format, lint, knip, typecheck, nearby tests and React compiler all pass.
  • apps/web vp build succeeds.
  • Existing sidebar and settings browser tests pass: Sidebar.browser, Sidebar.logic.browser, Sidebar.pointer.browser, ui/sidebar.browser, KeybindingsSettings.browser (16 tests). No new tests: the menu only wires existing settings, which the repo's testing guidance says to leave out.
  • Real web client (vp run dev on an isolated home with demo projects and Replay threads), driven with Playwright:
    • The inbox view shows Group by project + Working section. Turning on grouping swaps in Two-line rows and renders project folders.
    • Picking Created at checks it and reorders the folders, as shown above.
    • Escape returns focus to the View options button.
    • After a reload, Settings → General → Project order reads "Created at" and the Working section switch matches.

Not checked: the packaged desktop app (it wraps the same web sidebar), light mode, and Manual order beyond selecting it.

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Verdict: Approved at e7400e7

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — The sidebar gains a View options menu for existing grouping, layout, and project-order preferences. Changes are user-initiated and reversible, with no product-default changes.

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The sidebar now provides a View options menu for project grouping, Working section visibility, row layout, and project sort order. SettingsPanels reuses sort-order labels and validation from the sidebar component. The sidebar documentation describes the menu controls.

Changes: Sidebar view options

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared sort-order contract
apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarThreadHeader.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsPanels.tsx
SidebarThreadHeader defines sort-order labels and a schema-based validator. SettingsPanels imports them instead of defining local equivalents.
Sidebar menu controls
apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarThreadHeader.tsx, docs/user/thread-sidebar.md
SidebarThreadHeader adds a view-options menu with controls for grouping, Working section visibility, row layout, and sort order. The documentation describes the menu as a way to enable project grouping and turn off the Working section.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks, t3dotgg

Merge Risk: Low · up to 2b70c

The new sidebar View options menu shows five English-only labels for users with a non-default language, while the matching Settings labels are translated. This is a cosmetic localization gap and does not affect function. It is mergeable, with the labels best wrapped in translation helpers as a follow-up.

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Title check Passed The title names the main change: moving sidebar grouping and project-order controls into a new View options menu in the sidebar header. It follows the conventional commit form and is specific. The cha…
Description check Passed The description covers the problem (sidebar controls live only in Settings, and the legacy header menu was removed), the change (View options menu wiring existing settings), scope (it links the discus…
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The title names the main change: moving sidebar grouping and project-order controls into a new View options menu in the sidebar header. It follows the conventional commit form and is specific. The changeset adds that menu, wires it to the existing client settings, and updates the sidebar docs, which matches the title.

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The description covers the problem (sidebar controls live only in Settings, and the legacy header menu was removed), the change (View options menu wiring existing settings), scope (it links the discussion and says there is no maintainer approval yet), and verification (specific test suites, build, and Playwright checks, plus items not checked). It has before/after screenshots. The template asks for a bug fix, and this PR is a feature. The description says so openly, and it asks whether the change should be rescoped. The template's Problem section is phrased as a bug, so the description does not match the template's wording exactly. The content is still mostly complete.

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Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

Verified in a real dev environment

verified as-is at 6c490abb8c62d5d040a2bc46f169f12b55fefac5 on a linux boat vm. no source changes or pushes.

ran vp i and the real background dev server for github/main (fa2f4ff2a2) first, then the exact pr head, one server at a time. drove the web client with the repo's playwright and /usr/bin/google-chrome. added two projects pointing at real git repositories through the app and completed real codex gpt-6.1-sol turns on both revisions. no mocks, fixtures, replay provider, or demo data.

  • main has no view-options button. the pr adds it beside the existing project filter.
  • grouping toggles project folders immediately. the menu swaps working section for two-line rows. both row layouts work.
  • last user message puts the project with the newest real prompt first; created at puts the newer project first. manual selects the existing project order.
  • during a real codex turn, disabling working section moves the running thread into the main list; enabling it moves the thread back into working. the turn completed and returned to the inbox.
  • general/labs settings and the menu agree in both directions. grouping, working-section, and sort selections survive reload or reopening the client.
  • escape returns focus to view options. project filtering, folder collapse/reopen, and new-thread creation still work. inspected light mode at 1440×1000 and dark mode at 1366×768.

vp run check:changed passed through blacksmith-check after fetching the comparison history: format, lint, knip, affected typechecks, nearby tests, and react compiler. github checks are successful or intentionally skipped at this head.

matching-data before and after captures:

main: the sidebar has no view-options button

pr: the same projects and conversation with the new view-options button

pr: sorting, row-layout, grouping, and keyboard-focus interactions

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packaged electron desktop, native ios/android, other providers, multi-environment/relay/tunnel connections, and a pre-existing custom manual project order were not exercised. this vm verification covers the local web client with real codex turns. the change does not add a mobile menu.

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… header

A view menu next to the project filter toggles Group by project, the
Working section or two-line folder rows (whichever applies to the current
view), and the project sort order. Each control writes the same client
setting as its Settings row, so both stay in sync.
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- Line 166: Translate the sidebar view-options labels in SidebarThreadHeader
using the existing msg(...) and m(...) pattern used by the sort labels. Apply it
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