Keep routing state when "minimizing" overlay

[betegon]

each time i clicked out of spotlight i had to navigate back to the thing [...] we kind of wanna minimize if you will, bring it back to original state, vs "close" - @dcramer

Imo this would be great. I think it has some relation with the ability to develop/debug your product while having spotlight aside, so you are using spotlight "live".

[betegon]

It will be great to see what's going on real time, like logs coming in, spans, etc.

wild idea: make the whole thing resizable and always on top. I've found chatgpt desktop app very useful in a similar context: having something going on and doing your thing while checking responses.

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[dcramer]

This reminds me of past convos now: is spotlight just better as a desktop app?

[Shubhdeep12]

yes @betegon, we can think about and try out this idea – it’s almost similar to the Astro toolbar.

and I think this routing issue, at least on web this can be solved with a simple patch.
let me raise a PR for that.