[hello.ai] Make the AI chat window a regular application window with minimize, maximize, always on top controls

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Hi @Andreas_Hegenberg ,

Would it be possible to make the h@llo.ai chat window a regular window with controls please? The current window type makes sense for the launcher but I think chat windows should be regular windows.

There are a few reasons why I think this feature would be important.

  1. Makes it more compatible with window tiling managers.
  2. When the AI takes a while to respond, it would be convenient to be able to minimize the window and get a notification or sound when it has replied. While it's researching and forming a response it is just taking screen space for me and there is no way to hide it right now.
  3. Being able to maximize the window when necessary would also be useful for readability etc.
  4. Potentially it would also allow for having multiple chat windows at once.

I am happy if you want the same window dimensions as the current window and have it always on top by default. But having a setting to not make the chat window always on top would be appreciated.

Thank you for your consideration. :folded_hands:

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It's a good idea but also not easy to get right because morphing between window types is hard. I did some first experiments in 6.534 that convert to a (kind of) standard window once expanding

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I also added a new option "Open Directly in Expanded Window"

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Amazing! I can confirm both options work for me. Thank you Andreas

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@Andreas_Hegenberg A few comments and ideas having used the expanded window for hello.ai the last few days. I have managed to migrate from Raycast completely

  1. Sometimes when I have the hello.ai expanded window open and I click on the BTT icon in the dock it opens the config window instead of focusing the existing window.
  2. Whenever you delete a conversation a new conversation is created so there is no way to clear your conversation list cleanly. It would be great to have the following.
  3. Global shortcuts for the actions available in the window such as new conversation, delete conversation, find conversation, pin conversation, etc.
  4. In conversation searching
  5. Be able to select multiple conversations and bulk delete them.
  6. Don't show seconds for conversation timestamp. Maybe just have "less than a minute ago" and then do the timer per minute instead of seconds.
  7. Export a conversation.
  8. The ability to branch/clone conversations or to be able to undo messages.
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Yep, I'm currently working on this, I'll work on your ideas tomorrow.

I think this was already added yesterday and various performance improvements as well: