Git: Create Pull Request dialog disappears on focus loss

[jacobdalamb]

Problem

The "Create Pull Request" dialog is a modal that closes immediately when focus is lost (e.g., clicking outside Zed, Alt+Tab to another app, or switching windows). This causes:

• No way to recover or reopen the dialog

Expected Behavior

The dialog should either:

• Remain open when focus is lost, OR
• Add an Create Pull Request action via Command Palette/Git Panel

Actual Behavior

• Dialog dismisses instantly on focus loss
• No command palette action exists to recreate it
• Git Panel loses the "Create PR" button after dismissal

Proposed Solution

Add persistent, accessible actions for PR creation:

1. Command Palette: Add "Git: Create Pull Request" command (always available for current branch)
2. Git Panel: Add permanent "Create Pull Request" button (not just a temporary notification)
3. Dialog Behavior: Make it non-modal or prevent focus-loss dismissal

Zed Version and System Specs

Zed: v0.211.6 (Zed)
OS: macOS 26.1
Memory: 16 GiB
Architecture: aarch64

[katie-z-geer]

Hi @jacobdalamb , could you add a little more detail to this issue about what you're hoping to see?

[jacobdalamb]

I updated my title and description adding more detail.

[katie-z-geer]

Thanks, this is super helpful.

[cole-miller]

I think not having this toast dismiss when switching to another window seems reasonable. If anyone is looking at this, there's likely a on_blur handler somewhere that just needs to not dismiss the toast if window.is_active_window() is false.

[tommyming]

Hello, I think this should be a relatively easy issue to start with, I can work on this.

About the toast, do you think they should have a manual dismiss way, if it is not gonna dismiss in this case?

[cole-miller]

@tommyming I'm not exactly what the design should look like, but I've definitely wanted a manual dismiss for this toast in the past, so yeah!

[tommyming]

Did some investigation about the issue:

Inside toast_layer.rs, when you try to show the toast (calling the show_toast method), an automatically dismiss timer will be added to the background thread.

DEFAULT_TOAST_DURATION is 10 seconds.

Unless you are hovering over the toast, or else the timer will count down no matter how, and be dismissed after 10 seconds. The only way to pause the dismissal is to hover over the toast.

I am not 100% sure if thats the issue that @jacobdalamb is facing, but in this case, I can just disable the timer trigger, but I think the auto dismiss adding here is having a purpose I guess...?

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Proposed Solution

Add persistent, accessible actions for PR creation:

1. Command Palette: Add "Git: Create Pull Request" command (always available for current branch)
2. Git Panel: Add permanent "Create Pull Request" button (not just a temporary notification)
3. Dialog Behavior: Make it non-modal or prevent focus-loss dismissal

I would try to implement solution combining 1 and 2, to see how our user respond to this kind of approach.
Meanwhile, I will disable the pull request toast for now.

Feel free to correct me if wrong.