Setup dialog is not resizable, truncating project names/paths #12056

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1. juliusmarminge commented on Sep 16, 2026

   

   juliusmarminge

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   Confirmed on current main (b900fc94e) and shipping 0.0.42. This is a real web/desktop onboarding UX bug, not a wash of #10493 / #10832 / #11443. The Choose your projects step lives in a fixed max-w-xl wizard with no resize handle, and the import rows ellipsize names and paths. Mobile has no import step (#10493).

   /welcome is the setup dialog (WelcomeWizard inside Dialog + WizardPopup). Visiting /welcome reopens it after first run. “Choosing projects to import” is ImportStep, title Choose your projects.

   What the code does

   WizardPopup is locked to max-w-xl overflow-x-hidden overflow-y-auto and strips className / style on purpose (#10832: “layout components do not expose styling overrides”). DialogPopup also defaults to max-w-lg; the wizard wins at 36rem (~576px). There is no dialog resize anywhere. useResizeDrag is for sidebars / browser panes only.

   Import rows then truncate the label and the path. ImportRowMeta is a shrink-0 four-column grid (source icons + thread count + age, ~7.5rem). After panel padding, checkbox, and that meta strip, the text lane is ~350px.

   truncate is end-ellipsis. That is the identification hole for clones of one remote: group label is owner/name (#10493), nested rows are the full path, and sibling checkouts that share a prefix (…/t3code vs …/t3code-worktree) lose the suffix. Other folders use the path as the only label. Unique repos still show owner/name, so they usually read; the reporter’s “names and paths” matches long titles, path-as-name rows, and the secondary path on a single-clone row.

   The same wizard’s Connect step already wraps (break-words / break-all on machine label and URL). Import is the step that chose ellipsis.

   Hover tooltip is the designed escape hatch (max-w-96 + break-all shows the full path). It does not help scan-compare a long list.

   Still true after #10493 (grouping + truncate + tooltip) and #10832 (shared compact wizard). No later PR adds resize or start-ellipsis. No open PR claims this.

   Related, not duplicates

   Work	What it did	Why this still happens
   Merged #10832	Shared WizardPopup at max-w-xl; no style overrides	Width and overflow are the lock. SnapShot / Add provider / Connect / Git actions inherit the same box.
   Merged #10493	Group by remote, owner/name, Other folders, hover path tooltip	Tooltip is hover-only. Nested clone paths and Other folders still end-ellipsis.
   Open #11446 / open #11443	Stop long commands from stretching Add Action	Opposite failure. Do not drop overflow-x-hidden on WizardPopup.
   Merged #5362 / #10465	First-run wizard; multi-computer import	Neither made the picker grow.
   Open #10631	Import individual Claude sessions	Different picker.

   Suggested fix

   Keep this a small onboarding-picker readability bugfix. Do not invent a resize system for every setup wizard.

   1. Make clone paths distinguishable at max-w-xl. Nested / Other-folder rows should show the basename (or start-ellipsis the path) so …/t3code and …/t3code-worktree differ without hover. Unique-repo rows can keep owner/name as the primary label.
   2. Optional width, not a className hole. If the list still feels cramped, add an explicit WizardPopup size (wide → max-w-2xl / max-w-3xl) and use it on Welcome import only. refactor(web): consolidate setup wizards into shared components #10832 omitted className on purpose.
   3. Do not add drag-resize to WizardPopup (or reuse useResizeDrag) for this. That is new chrome on SnapShot, Add provider, Connect, Git actions, and ChatView. Resize is a last resort on Welcome only: min max-w-xl, max min(90vw, 56rem), not persisted.
   4. Keep overflow-x-hidden and the hover tooltip. Do not wrap every path onto four lines.
   5. Tests: two long sibling paths that share a prefix; the visible label still distinguishes them. owner/name rows stay one line.
   6. Visual: /welcome → Projects → two clones of one repo; both readable without hover. Connect / Agents / SnapShot stay max-w-xl unless you took the wide prop.

   Do not treat “keep every wizard mounted wider” or a global resizable dialog primitive as the fix.

   Workaround

   Hover the truncated name/path. The tooltip shows the full path, wrapped. Re-open setup at /welcome. No in-app width control.

   Classification: bug · accepted · minor (web/desktop onboarding import; fixed max-w-xl wizard end-ellipsizes the only field that distinguishes clones)
   Labels: add bug, accepted, via-triage
   Discord tags: ui

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2. juliusmarminge

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   bugSomething is broken or behaving incorrectly.Something is broken or behaving incorrectly.

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   on Sep 16, 2026
3. Yash-Singh1

   closed this as completedin #12474on Oct 13, 2026