From 4f7e1eeafd9a248fe12ddc10433339f3553d75b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: oobabooga <112222186+oobabooga@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2024 01:57:29 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Past chat histories in a side bar on desktop (#5098)

Lots of room for improvement, but that's a start.
---
 css/main.css       | 14 ++++++++++++++
 js/main.js         | 12 ++++++++++++
 modules/ui_chat.py | 24 ++++++++++++++----------
 3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/css/main.css b/css/main.css
index 653da3ee..3d34a564 100644
--- a/css/main.css
+++ b/css/main.css
@@ -660,6 +660,20 @@ div.svelte-362y77>*, div.svelte-362y77>.form>* {
     margin-top: var(--layout-gap);
 }
 
+/* ----------------------------------------------
+  Past chat histories in a side bar on desktop
+---------------------------------------------- */
+@media screen and (width >= 1327px) {
+    #past-chats-row {
+        position: absolute;
+        top: 16px;
+        left: 0;
+        width: calc(0.5*(var(--document-width) - 880px - 120px - 16px*2));
+        max-width: 300px;
+        margin-left: calc(-0.5*(var(--document-width) - 880px - 14px - 16px * 2));
+    }
+}
+
 /* ----------------------------------------------
   Keep dropdown menus above errored components
 ---------------------------------------------- */
diff --git a/js/main.js b/js/main.js
index 60f4bf3b..f63327ce 100644
--- a/js/main.js
+++ b/js/main.js
@@ -385,3 +385,15 @@ new ResizeObserver(updateCssProperties)
   .observe(document.querySelector("#chat-input textarea"));
 
 window.addEventListener("resize", updateCssProperties);
+
+//------------------------------------------------
+// Keep track of the display width to position the past
+// chats dropdown on desktop
+//------------------------------------------------
+function updateDocumentWidth() {
+  var updatedWidth = window.innerWidth || document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth;
+  document.documentElement.style.setProperty("--document-width", updatedWidth + "px");
+}
+
+updateDocumentWidth();
+window.addEventListener("resize", updateDocumentWidth);
diff --git a/modules/ui_chat.py b/modules/ui_chat.py
index 76c7d5ff..1713a39d 100644
--- a/modules/ui_chat.py
+++ b/modules/ui_chat.py
@@ -63,17 +63,21 @@ def create_ui():
                 shared.gradio['send-chat-to-default'] = gr.Button('Send to default')
                 shared.gradio['send-chat-to-notebook'] = gr.Button('Send to notebook')
 
-        with gr.Row(elem_id='past-chats-row'):
-            shared.gradio['unique_id'] = gr.Dropdown(label='Past chats', elem_classes=['slim-dropdown'], interactive=not mu)
-            shared.gradio['rename_chat'] = gr.Button('Rename', elem_classes='refresh-button', interactive=not mu)
-            shared.gradio['delete_chat'] = gr.Button('🗑️', elem_classes='refresh-button', interactive=not mu)
-            shared.gradio['delete_chat-cancel'] = gr.Button('Cancel', visible=False, elem_classes='refresh-button')
-            shared.gradio['delete_chat-confirm'] = gr.Button('Confirm', variant='stop', visible=False, elem_classes='refresh-button')
+        with gr.Row(elem_id='past-chats-row', elem_classes=['pretty_scrollbar']): 
+            with gr.Column():
+                with gr.Row():
+                    shared.gradio['unique_id'] = gr.Dropdown(label='Past chats', elem_classes=['slim-dropdown'], interactive=not mu)
 
-        with gr.Row(elem_id='rename-row'):
-            shared.gradio['rename_to'] = gr.Textbox(label='Rename to:', placeholder='New name', visible=False, elem_classes=['no-background'])
-            shared.gradio['rename_to-cancel'] = gr.Button('Cancel', visible=False, elem_classes='refresh-button')
-            shared.gradio['rename_to-confirm'] = gr.Button('Confirm', visible=False, elem_classes='refresh-button')
+                with gr.Row():
+                    shared.gradio['delete_chat'] = gr.Button('🗑️', elem_classes='refresh-button', interactive=not mu)
+                    shared.gradio['delete_chat-confirm'] = gr.Button('Confirm', variant='stop', visible=False, elem_classes='refresh-button')
+                    shared.gradio['delete_chat-cancel'] = gr.Button('Cancel', visible=False, elem_classes='refresh-button')
+                    shared.gradio['rename_chat'] = gr.Button('Rename', elem_classes='refresh-button', interactive=not mu)
+
+                with gr.Row(elem_id='rename-row'):
+                    shared.gradio['rename_to'] = gr.Textbox(label='Rename to:', placeholder='New name', visible=False, elem_classes=['no-background'])
+                    shared.gradio['rename_to-confirm'] = gr.Button('Confirm', visible=False, elem_classes='refresh-button')
+                    shared.gradio['rename_to-cancel'] = gr.Button('Cancel', visible=False, elem_classes='refresh-button')
 
         with gr.Row():
             shared.gradio['start_with'] = gr.Textbox(label='Start reply with', placeholder='Sure thing!', value=shared.settings['start_with'])