From 24354049f46f706916b613a8171318a87d08158e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Andr=C3=A9=20Padez?= <andre.padez@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2026 07:09:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] browse for the folder instead of typing it
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the project form asked for a path and gave a text field, while fofos-admin — built
hours earlier — had a directory picker for exactly the same question. that picker
is now shared from the officerdev barrel, so this uses it.

browse OR type: the picker fills the field and the FIELD is what saves, so the path
stays visible and editable before it is stored. a folder outside home is still
reachable by typing, and the server refuses it with a reason rather than the picker
silently making it unreachable.

picking a folder offers its last two segments as the name when the name is empty —
`thing/todo` — because that is what somebody would have typed. left editable.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 web/ProjectsPanel.tsx | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/web/ProjectsPanel.tsx b/web/ProjectsPanel.tsx
index 55c8724..326634a 100644
--- a/web/ProjectsPanel.tsx
+++ b/web/ProjectsPanel.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { useEffect, useState } from 'react';
 import { FolderPlus, FolderTree, Loader2, Trash2 } from 'lucide-react';
 import { toast } from 'sonner';
+import { DirectoryPicker } from 'officerdev';
 import { Button } from '@/components/ui/button';
 import { Input } from '@/components/ui/input';
 import { useProjects, useSelectedProject } from './useKanban';
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@ export const ProjectsPanel = () => {
   const [name, setName] = useState('');
   const [path, setPath] = useState('');
   const [confirming, setConfirming] = useState<number | null>(null);
+  const [picking, setPicking] = useState(false);
 
   /*
     Land on something rather than on nothing.
@@ -72,14 +74,43 @@ export const ProjectsPanel = () => {
 
       {adding && (
         <form onSubmit={submit} className="flex flex-col gap-2 border-b border-border p-3">
-          <Input autoFocus value={name} onChange={(e) => setName(e.target.value)} placeholder="Name" className="text-sm" />
           <Input
-            value={path}
-            onChange={(e) => setPath(e.target.value)}
-            placeholder="~/projects/thing/todo"
-            className="font-mono text-xs"
-            spellCheck={false}
+            autoFocus
+            value={name}
+            onChange={(e) => setName(e.target.value)}
+            placeholder="Name"
+            className="text-sm"
           />
+          {/*
+            Browse OR type. The picker fills the field and the field is what saves, so the path stays
+            visible and editable before it is stored — and a folder outside home, which the picker
+            cannot reach, can still be typed and will be refused by the server with a reason.
+          */}
+          <div className="flex gap-2">
+            <Input
+              value={path}
+              onChange={(e) => setPath(e.target.value)}
+              placeholder="~/projects/thing/todo"
+              className="min-w-0 flex-1 font-mono text-xs"
+              spellCheck={false}
+            />
+            <Button type="button" variant="outline" size="sm" onClick={() => setPicking((open) => !open)}>
+              {picking ? 'Close' : 'Browse'}
+            </Button>
+          </div>
+
+          {picking && (
+            <DirectoryPicker
+              onCancel={() => setPicking(false)}
+              onPick={(absolutePath) => {
+                setPath(absolutePath);
+                setPicking(false);
+                // A folder is usually named after itself — offer that as the name rather than an empty
+                // field, and leave it editable.
+                if (!name.trim()) setName(absolutePath.split('/').filter(Boolean).slice(-2).join('/'));
+              }}
+            />
+          )}
           {/* Said before they press it, not after it fails: the folder holding the theme directories is
               not the repository root, and the two are one level apart. */}
           <p className="text-[11px] text-muted-foreground/70">