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This PR introduces significant user interface and user experience improvements to the Qiskit Code Assistant, focusing on creating a unified, professional, and consistent experience across all extension features. The main enhancements include unified feedback mechanisms, enhanced loading animations, and improved visual consistency.

Summary of Changes

Unified Feedback System

  • Replaced intrusive modal dialogs with elegant inline CodeLens feedback for migration
  • Standardized feedback UI across both code completion and migration features
  • Implemented consistent thumbs up/down icons that appear above code blocks
  • Eliminated workflow interruptions by removing popup dialogs during migration

Enhanced Status Bar Loading Animations

  • Context-aware loading states that accurately reflect current operations
  • Prominent spinner animations positioned right after the model name
  • Accurate streaming detection - only shows "streaming" when actually enabled
  • Professional visual hierarchy with clean icon placement and descriptive text
  • Optimized animation timing for smoother user experience

Visual Polish and Consistency

  • Standardized VS Code iconography throughout the extension
  • Improved theme integration with proper color usage
  • Enhanced visual separation between UI elements
  • Professional loading state management with appropriate status messaging

Documentation Updates

  • Updated user guide to reflect new unified feedback system
  • Added migration feedback section explaining the new CodeLens approach
  • Clarified user workflows for both completion and migration features

Type of change

  • New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
  • This change requires a documentation update

How Has This Been Tested?

Manual Testing Performed

Unified Feedback System Testing

  • Migration feedback consistency: Verified thumbs up/down icons appear above migrated code blocks
  • Completion feedback reference: Confirmed migration feedback matches completion feedback exactly
  • Modal dialog removal: Verified no popup dialogs interrupt migration workflow
  • Feedback submission: Tested feedback data flows correctly through unified system

Enhanced Loading Animations Testing

  • Status accuracy: Confirmed streaming status only appears when streaming is enabled
  • Visual hierarchy: Verified loading spinner appears prominently after model name
  • Context awareness: Tested different loading states (connecting, generating, streaming, processing)

Cross-Feature Consistency Testing

  • UI consistency: Both migration and completion use identical feedback patterns
  • Status bar behavior: Consistent loading state management across all operations
  • Icon usage: Standardized iconography throughout the extension
  • User flow: Smooth, non-intrusive interactions across all features (most of the time)

Rushil Kakkad and others added 6 commits August 23, 2025 21:34
This commit fixes the broken streaming functionality for both code completions
and code migration, and unifies the feedback UI across all features.

## Key Changes

### Streaming Fixes
- **Fixed dynamic configuration loading**: Moved
  calls inside service methods to ensure settings changes are picked up at runtime
- **Corrected stream processing logic**: Fixed the core issue in
  where streaming chunks were incorrectly processed, leading to broken text accumulation
- **Added delta field support**: Updated  type to include the
  optional  field for incremental streaming updates
- **Enhanced stream buffering**: Improved  streaming logic with better
  buffering and error handling for incomplete chunks
- **Added streaming support to migration**: Code migration now supports streaming
  when the setting is enabled

### UI/UX Improvements
- **Unified feedback UI**: Migration feedback now uses the same CodeLens thumbs
  up/down icons as normal completions, providing a consistent user experience
- **Removed modal dialogs**: Replaced the migration feedback dialog with inline
  CodeLens feedback icons
- **Added debug command**: New 'Debug streaming configuration' command to help
  troubleshoot streaming issues

### Documentation & Testing
- **Updated documentation**: Added migration feedback section to GETTING_STARTED.md
- **Added test files**: Created test files for verifying streaming functionality
- **Enhanced logging**: Added comprehensive logging throughout the streaming pipeline

## Files Modified
- : Fixed core streaming logic
- : Dynamic config loading and better error handling
- : Dynamic config loading
- : Added streaming support
- : Enhanced stream buffering
- : Unified feedback UI with CodeLens
- : Added delta field to ModelPromptResponse
- : Added debug command
- : Updated documentation

## Verification
- ✅ All compilation errors resolved
- ✅ Build passes successfully
- ✅ Both streaming and non-streaming modes functional
- ✅ Migration feedback UI unified with completions
- ✅ Configuration changes now take effect immediately

Fixes streaming issues and provides a consistent, professional user experience
across all extension features.
## UI/UX Improvements

### Unified Feedback System
- Replace migration modal dialogs with inline CodeLens thumbs up/down icons
- Create consistent feedback experience across completions and migration
- Remove workflow interruptions from feedback collection

### Enhanced Status Bar Animations
- Add prominent loading spinner right after model name during operations
- Context-aware loading states (connecting, generating, streaming, processing)
- Improved visual feedback with appropriate icons for each stage
- Only show 'streaming' status when streaming is actually enabled

### Professional Visual Polish
- Clean, consistent iconography throughout the extension
- Better spacing and visual hierarchy in status displays
- Proper integration with VS Code theme colors

## Key Changes
- src/commands/migrateQiskitCode.ts: Unified feedback UI with CodeLens
- src/statusBar/statusBar.ts: Enhanced loading animations and accurate status
- src/services/qiskitMigration.ts: Improved streaming architecture
- GETTING_STARTED.md: Updated documentation for new UI patterns

Provides a consistent, professional user experience across all extension features.
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