notedeck

commit 977e9bb08f64439a798c1177ba2572587095c5d0
parent 8a85cf83fbd9ef21cc239bb92eb0150c82943f2b
Author: William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com>
Date:   Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:04:58 -0800

dave: move compaction status to chat area with spinner

Show the compaction status at the bottom of the chat messages with a
spinner animation, matching Claude Code's UX of showing status after
the user's message rather than in the input box.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Diffstat:
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crates/notedeck_dave/src/ui/dave.rs
 | 
25
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1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/crates/notedeck_dave/src/ui/dave.rs b/crates/notedeck_dave/src/ui/dave.rs
@@ -295,6 +295,23 @@ impl<'a> DaveUi<'a> {
             };
         }
 
+        // Show status line at the bottom of chat when compacting
+        if self.is_compacting {
+            ui.horizontal(|ui| {
+                ui.add(egui::Spinner::new().size(14.0));
+                ui.label(
+                    egui::RichText::new("compacting...")
+                        .color(ui.visuals().weak_text_color())
+                        .italics(),
+                );
+                ui.label(
+                    egui::RichText::new("(press esc to interrupt)")
+                        .color(ui.visuals().weak_text_color())
+                        .small(),
+                );
+            });
+        }
+
         response
     }
 
@@ -740,14 +757,6 @@ impl<'a> DaveUi<'a> {
                     dave_response = DaveResponse::send();
                 }
 
-                // Show compaction indicator when compacting
-                if self.is_compacting {
-                    super::badge::StatusBadge::new("COMPACTING...")
-                        .variant(super::badge::BadgeVariant::Warning)
-                        .show(ui)
-                        .on_hover_text("Conversation is being compacted to save tokens");
-                }
-
                 // Show plan mode indicator with optional keybind hint when Ctrl is held
                 let ctrl_held = ui.input(|i| i.modifiers.ctrl);
                 let mut badge =