Settings UI

[bobbymannino]

I cannot seem to find an issue for settings ui? I would assume somebody had make an issue/feature request for it by now but if not it would be great to have a neat/zed ui for the settings instead of editing the json directly

[AlvaroParker]

There's already a crate for that, so it's planned feature. I don't know when can we expect it because is not even on the roadmap but at least it's planned!

[bobbymannino]

thank you, and thats a great spot btw

[michaelCTS]

This would definitely be an improvement. As a newcomer to Zed, trying to figure out which keybindings were set wasn't easy. It also took some searching for find out that by default the mouse is hidden during and after typing (as in it doesn't come back).

Scrolling through a JSON isn't the easiest way to find settings.

[mocenigo]

I see that crate settings_ui is compiled when I build Zed and there are always new changes to the code. I think I managed once to see it, but I do not remember how. How can I invoke the settings UI?

[AlvaroParker]

It's behind the FeatureFlag trait:

zed/crates/settings_ui/src/settings_ui.rs

Lines 170 to 173 in 41cf114

	impl FeatureFlag for SettingsUiFeatureFlag {
	const NAME: &'static str = "settings-ui";
	}

Be aware that this is not ready for usage at all