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Desktop chat bubble visual distinction and layout

NousResearch/hermes-agent · cluster 41302 · apps/desktop

Data as of

9 open items. Fix attempted, not merged.

The short answer

6open issues
3open PRs
13items grouped
Known?
Yes. 13 related items grouped here, 4 issues already closed.
Fix event
No fix has been merged to main. see the attempts below.
Tracker
The maintainers' tracker marks this unresolved. That is separate from the fix event.
Still open
6 issues and 3 PRs.

These issues and PRs concern improving visual differentiation between user and assistant messages in the desktop chat UI, including left/right bubble alignment, separate colors and borders per role, and configurable styling options.

Open issues6

  • Issue#41302[Feature]: Desktop chat bubble layout — dual-column left/right message alignment with configurable toggle
  • Issue#52426[Feature]: Improve conversation readability — distinguish user messages from assistant responses visually
  • Issue#53120Separate styling for user and assistant messages in Desktop/TUI
  • Issue#57575[Feature]: Desktop app: support per-user CSS overrides or configurable user-message background
  • Issue#65324[Feature]: User messages lack personalized identifier and full-width border; user/Hermes colors are too similar
  • Issue#67290[Feature]: Per-role message bubble colors — make the assistant (AI) bubble independently colorable on Desktop

Open PRs3

  • PR#41402feat(desktop): add optional bubble chat layout with left/right message alignment
  • PR#68225feat(desktop): add opt-in assistant bubble color (closes #67290)
  • PR#71505fix(desktop): honor themed user bubble borders
Closed issues · 4
  • Closed#53011[Feature Request] Add visual distinction for user messages (border/highlight)
  • Closed#57104Desktop App: User and assistant message bubbles visually indistinguishable
  • Closed#57807[Feature]: Desktop chat view — weak visual distinction between user and assistant messages hurts usability in long sessions
  • Closed#60596[Bug]:Chat UI alignment issue on Windows: Messages are centered instead of split left-right
How this cluster was grouped
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  • Pairwise link density 0.13: the share of item pairs that carry a link, counting a structural link in full and a relevance-only link at 0.36. 1.00 means every pair is linked.

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