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All time, since Oct 21, including 3 thumbs-up on GitHub.

Background activity on session rows

“From the sidebar there is no way to tell "waiting on background work" from "nothing is happening".”

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See background task activity on sidebar session rows. In the desktop app's Code tab, rows show idle once the turn ends while run_in_background commands still run.

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Desktop app sidebar
Versions
2.1.304
Platforms
macOS, Windows

Part of: See session status at glance3 requests

  1. Spot finished sessions in sidebar14 people
  2. Color sidebar rows by status12 people

Not quite your request?

  1. Persistent session task list2 people
  2. Waiting indicators on project rows2 people

Original reports2, newest first

  1. Desktop app: show background activity (and a count) on session rows#106220
  2. Desktop: sidebar shows a session as finished while its background tasks are still running#104047

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