dsh-sidebar-compact-macos

dsh-sidebar-compact-macos

A small macOS desktop UI plugin for DeepSeek Harness. It keeps the brand mark and the sidebar's four existing actions: the brand moves into the window title-bar strip (to the right of the traffic lights), the four actions become one row of equal buttons, and the list below gets the vertical space that the stacked rows used to take.

What it changes

• Moves the brand into the title-bar strip (deepseek HARNESS): the mark and wordmark now sit to the right of the traffic lights and left of the sidebar collapse toggle, scaled to fit the 52 px strip. It is positioned absolutely, so the button row below does not move; it is decorative (pointer-events: none) and never blocks dragging or the toggle.
• One row of four equal, bordered buttons: New session, Plugins, Scheduled tasks and More. Each keeps its original host element, handler, shortcut, selected state and menu — only the layout and the icon/label sizing are overridden.
• Tightens the list: the workspace section header goes from 36 px to 28 px, workspace rows from 34 px to 30 px, conversation rows from 32 px to 28 px, with smaller gaps between rows. Together with the header change the sidebar fits roughly 5–8 more conversations at a typical window height.

Scope: macOS desktop only

This plugin only affects the expanded sidebar of the macOS desktop app, because it relies on the desktop preload's data-platform="darwin" marker. A dsh web browser tab and the Windows/Linux desktop layout are left completely untouched. That is intentional: the selectors target the macOS window-chrome layout (the drag strip that owns the collapse toggle).

Compatibility

• Tested with DeepSeek Harness 0.2.2-rc.2.
• engines.dsh is >=0.2.2-rc.2 <0.3.0-0.
• DSH 0.2.2-rc.2 moved the global panel list and the workspace browser into the sidebar's new scroll area; version 1.2.0 targets that structure. The older 0.2.2-rc.1 sidebar layout is not supported.
• If a DSH app update ever stops the plugin from applying, re-enable it once in the plugin manager. App updates have been observed rewriting the profile's dsh.profile.bundles list and dropping local bundles from it.
• The overrides match the host's CSS-module class-name suffixes (_logoRow, _panelRow, _sessionRow, …) and scope themselves to the sidebar root. If a future host build renames those internals, the styles simply stop applying and the stock sidebar returns — the plugin fails safe rather than breaking the UI.
• It is a CSS-only client plugin: no network access, no analytics, no build step, no native code, no storage. index.js is an empty host half.

Install

Through the plugin market

Once listed in a market that carries the awesome-dsh-plugin catalog, open Plugins → Discover, find macOS compact sidebar and install it.

From this repository

Use the repository as a plugin bundle installation spec (the package declares dsh.bundle and cordis.patch.yml, so it is installable from source; there is no build step):

dsh plugin add github:627666/dsh-sidebar-compact-macos

Then restart the app if the host asks for it.

Uninstall

Remove the bundle from the profile through the plugin manager (or the market's installed list). The injected <style> is removed with the plugin's effect cleanup, so the stock sidebar comes back immediately.

Screenshots

screenshots.json declares the two images above; both are crops of the real UI that do not contain any conversation titles.

License

MIT — see LICENSE. This is an unofficial community plugin, not affiliated with DeepSeek.