tweak: display MCPs in alphabetic order in the sidebar. #4680
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Display MCP servers in alphabetical order in the session sidebar for consistent and predictable ordering. Previously, MCPs appeared in the order their connections completed, which varied based on startup time and network latency.
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would it be more aesthetic to sort by length? That;s what we do in the docs |
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Well... I'm undecided, but kind of leaning towards alphabetical myself so far. Either of these options (length based or alphabetical) would be more aesthetic than the current state, where the order is just some arbitrary consequence of what order some Promises resolve in... To me, alphabetical does feel kind of like it would be the least surprising.... what prompted me making this change was that I'd just added the 3 z.ai MCPs and was surprised and somewhat confused to find that not only were these three Z-prefixed MCPs not all at the bottom of the list, but that they weren't even all together (notice in the before screenshot, basic-memory and calculator-mcp occur in between two of the zai MCPs, preceded by two zai MCPs that just so happened to occur next to one another). If I started opencode and saw the alphabetical list of MCPs, that would feel so natural that I wouldn't even think about it twice.... us English speakers see so many alphabetically ordered lists in our lives that our brains have been trained to pass them over without a second thought. Length based might briefly surprise me and I'd think "Why are they sorted this way?" but it'd likely only take my brain a couple of seconds to puzzle out that length explained the sorting, so I'd get over the momentary surprise pretty quickly. Ultimately your call, either option would be less surprising than the current Promise-resolution-timing ordering. |
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Yeah that's valid |
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Another possible ordering that I considered (but haven't tried implementing yet) was to match the display order to the order of definition in the |
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Display MCP servers in alphabetical order in the session sidebar for consistent and predictable ordering. Previously, MCPs appeared in the order their connections completed, which varied based on startup time and network latency.
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