Relay 0.5.21

Workspaces, folders and canvases

The sidebar now has three levels:

• Workspaces are named places you create by name. They do not point at a directory.
• Folders group canvases inside a workspace.
• Canvases are one repository each, and are the only thing that asks you to pick a directory.

Right-click a workspace or folder for New folder, New canvas, Rename and Delete. New canvas opens a folder picker and checks that you chose a Git repository. Deleting a folder keeps what was inside it and moves it up a level. Opening a project from the command palette adds it as a canvas to the current workspace.

Workspaces and folders can be collapsed with their chevron, and Relay remembers which ones are open. Your existing sidebar is converted automatically, and a backup of the old arrangement is kept.

A clearer first launch

A fresh install no longer shows a workspace named after whatever directory Relay was started from. After the onboarding tour you see a short screen with two actions: create a workspace by name, or open your first project. Choosing a repository opens its canvas straight away.

To create things later, right-click the empty area below the sidebar list, or the root row, for New workspace and New folder.

Drag and drop in the sidebar

You can now arrange the sidebar by dragging, as well as through the right-click menus.

• Drag a canvas or folder into another folder, or onto the root, within the same workspace. Dropping into another workspace, or a folder into itself, is refused.
• A drag only starts after a small movement, so clicks stay clicks. The row you picked up stays in place, dimmed with a dashed outline.
• A dashed row shows exactly where the item will land.
• When a drop is refused, the dragged label says why, for example "already here" or "inside itself".
• Dragging near the top or bottom edge scrolls the list. Press Esc, or release somewhere invalid, to cancel.

A zoomed-out view of the workspace

Zooming out past 25% now shows every canvas in the current workspace as an island, with its agents drawn as small markers and folders shown as regions. You can zoom out to 10%, and drag islands to arrange them. The layout is kept outside your repositories.

Fixes

• Layers in repositories where an old canvas.json had been committed lost their layout every time the canvas was opened. Layer layouts are now kept, and archived layers recover their canvas where it can still be found.
• With several API keys on an agent account, a key that had been skipped could be used again on the very next launch instead of rotating to the next one.