# Introduce channels and move collab popover contents to a collaboration panel \(\#2828\) · gitcafe/zed

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Repository: [gitcafe/zed](https://git.cafe/gitcafe/zed)

Visibility: public

Requested revision: 4ea8b8292c400d6e0ab964b94b1b43e5c0d7824b

Requested commit: 4ea8b8292c400d6e0ab964b94b1b43e5c0d7824b

Commit: 4ea8b8292c400d6e0ab964b94b1b43e5c0d7824b

Tree: e87a732ed31a20b070de786541ff15ea8196a6d2

Author: Max Brunsfeld

Committer: GitHub

## Message

```
Introduce channels and move collab popover contents to a collaboration panel (#2828)

### Summary

This PR introduces channels: a new way of starting collaboration
sessions. You can create channels and invite others to join them. You
can then hold a call in a channel, where any member of the channel is
free to join the call without needing to be invited.

Channels are displayed in a new panel called the collaboration panel,
which now also contains the contacts list, and the current call. The
collaboration popover has been removed from the titlebar.

![Screen Shot 2023-08-15 at 9 25 37
AM](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/assets/326587/0f989dea-7fb7-4d50-9acd-25c8f1c30cd1)


For now, the channels functionality will only be revealed to staff, so
the public-facing change is just the move from the popover to the panel.

### To-do

* User-facing UI
  * [x] signed-out state for collab panel
  * [x] new icon for collab panel
  * [x] for now, channels section only appears for zed staff
* [x] current call section styling
(https://zed-industries.slack.com/archives/C05CJUNF2BU/p1691189389988239?thread_ts=1691189120.403009&cid=C05CJUNF2BU)
* [x] Channel members
* Channels
  * [x] style channel name editor
* [x] decide on a special "empty state" for the panel, when user has no
contacts
* [x] ensure channels are sorted in a consistent way (expose channel id
paths to client)
  * [x] Figure out layered panels UX
  * [x] Change add contacts to be the same kind of tabbed modal
* [x] race condition between channel updates and user fetches
(`ChannelStore::handle_update_contacts`)
* [x] race condition between joining channels and channel update
messages `collab::rpc::channel_updated`)
* [x] don't display mic as muted when microphone share is pending upon
first joining call

Release Notes:

- Moved the collaboration dropdown into its own panel.
- Added settings for disabling the AI assistant panel button.
- Switch to lazily initializing audio output sources
(https://github.com/zed-industries/community/issues/1840,
https://github.com/zed-industries/community/issues/1919)
```

## Parents

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