Refactor chat input animation and improve border color visibility#311873
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Pull request overview
Refactors the in-flight chat input progress border animation to a “border beam”/comet effect and adjusts theme color defaults to improve border visibility across themes.
Changes:
- Updated
chat.inputWorkingBorderColor1default values for dark/light themes. - Replaced the prior multi-stop rotating gradient + animated glow with a two-layer (
::beforebeam +::afterglow) conic-gradient animation. - Updated CSS comments to reflect the new effect and implementation details.
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Copilot reviewed 2 out of 2 changed files in this pull request and generated 3 comments.
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src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/common/widget/chatColors.ts |
Tweaks default working-border color stop 1 for better visibility. |
src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/browser/widget/media/chat.css |
Implements the new comet-like border beam animation and glow using pseudo-elements and a rotating custom property. |
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Enhance the chat input animation to feature a comet-like border effect while processing requests. Update border colors for better visibility in different themes. Adjust comments for clarity.