New Kagi Assistant UI does not have a way to tell where my prompt is!

marcel001122

Yes this could be even nicer if the prompt placements are on two different sides of the screen. Will feel much natural and intuitive too.

dreifach

I feel that the design of the Assistant interface makes it difficult to differentiate between queries and responses when going through a long chat.

The icon next to the query doesn't visually suffice for me — permanent rather than transient shading of some kind would be useful.

kagifdbk

As it stands, very little differentiates user and Assistant's text boxes in the thread. Please add some contrast (background, font, distinct boxes/bubbles) so it's easier to differentiate

Examples:
OpenAI's ChatGPT:

Anthropic's Claude Chat:

DeeKahy

What does your feature entail?

Optional chat interface themes for Kagi Assistant - allowing users to choose between the current note-style design and more "traditional" chat bubble layouts.

What is it for?

Addresses visual clarity issues where users struggle to distinguish between their messages and AI responses in the current interface.

How will it affect existing workflows?

Current problem: Users waste time scanning for message boundaries, especially in long conversations
Solution benefit: Faster conversation review and reduced cognitive load

Key Usage Scenarios

Long research sessions: Quickly find specific questions/answers in multi-turn conversations
Code debugging: Easily distinguish between user code and AI solutions

Implementation Examples

ChatGPT: Right-aligned user bubbles, left-aligned AI responses with distinct backgrounds
Kagi Catppuccin Light/Dark Theme: Has seperators between every message to make it clear what is me and what is ai.

Proposed Integration

Location: Settings > Appearance > Assistant Interface (or something)
Options:

Classic (current)
Bubbles (distinct containers)
High Contrast (accessibility)
Probably some others 🤷

Roovesta

Supported!

DeeKahy

Here are some examples of what i was thinking would be better, and what i have issues with. Sorry for not attaching some to begin with.

I do think having some sort of difference between me and the LLM would be nice. openai for example right aligns the user with a bubble, and has the LLM have no background or bubble, but there could obviously be other ways of doing that.

emre

User requests and its AI responses are styled the same way, making it difficult to distinguish one from the other. At least use a different background color.

madhatter

This is a genuine problem indeed and I had raised it in the past. For the moment, I have fixed it at my end using custom CSS.

Ref:
https://kagifeedback.org/d/7119-alternating-background-for-messages-in-assistant-for-easier-visual-search

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