Panel view is the default

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0169iPWwKHZoBTNN9qwXiwqk

README.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 Find All References results shown the way Visual Studio does it — in two views.
 
-**Editor view** (default) writes the results into a read-only virtual document in the *same language as your
+**Editor view** writes the results into a read-only virtual document in the *same language as your
 source file*, so your theme colors every line for free — including identifiers, because the semantic tokens
 are fetched from the real source files and relocated into the results (see *Semantic tokens* below). File
 headers show the containing project
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ headers show the containing project
 highlighted like search matches; **writes are bold** on the theme's stronger write-occurrence background, the
 same colour the editor itself uses for a write.
 
-**Panel view** shows the same results as a table with resizable, sortable columns — Code, File, Line, Kind,
+**Panel view** (default) shows the same results as a table with resizable, sortable columns — Code, File, Line, Kind,
 Project and Containing member — grouped by file, with a text filter plus filters for reads/writes, project and
 test code. By default it docks in the **bottom panel**
 alongside Terminal and Problems, where a wide, short table reads best; you can drag it to either side bar,
@@ -65,9 +65,16 @@ nothing waits on it. The panel gets the same token *types* but paints them from
 webview is not given the theme’s token colours. Set `coloredReferences.semanticTokens` to `false` for
 grammar-only colouring; results spanning more than 40 files skip it.
 
+## When nothing is found
+
+"No references" can mean the language server never indexed the project. If the
+*.NET Solution Launcher* extension is installed, an empty result asks it which projects
+DotRush has loaded and says so — "the language server has not loaded MyGame.Runtime" —
+with a *Reload Workspace* button, instead of a plain "No references found".
+
 ## Settings
 
-- `coloredReferences.view` — which view `Find All References (Colored)` opens: `document` (default) or `panel`
+- `coloredReferences.view` — which view `Find All References (Colored)` opens: `panel` (default) or `document`
 - `coloredReferences.panelLocation` — where the panel opens: `bottom` (default, docked next to Terminal /
   Problems and draggable to a side bar), `beside` (editor group to the side), or `below` (editor group
   underneath, so the table is wide and short)

media/panel.css

@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ body {
     padding: 4px 8px;
     border-bottom: 1px solid var(--vscode-panel-border, transparent);
     flex: 0 0 auto;
+    /* Solid: rows scroll underneath, and a see-through bar over code is unreadable. */
+    background: var(--vscode-editor-background);
 }
 
 #summary {
@@ -112,7 +114,12 @@ body {
     display: grid;
     grid-template-columns: var(--grid);
     height: var(--header-height);
-    background: var(--vscode-keybindingTable-headerBackground, var(--vscode-editor-background));
+    /* The theme's header colour is usually a translucent tint, so it is painted over the
+       solid editor background; otherwise rows scrolling underneath show through it. */
+    background-color: var(--vscode-editor-background);
+    background-image: linear-gradient(
+        var(--vscode-keybindingTable-headerBackground, transparent),
+        var(--vscode-keybindingTable-headerBackground, transparent));
     border-bottom: 1px solid var(--vscode-panel-border, var(--vscode-editorWidget-border));
     user-select: none;
 }
@@ -335,15 +342,23 @@ body.resizing {
     text-overflow: ellipsis;
 }
 
+/* Read and write are a pair, so they get the same treatment: the theme's info and
+   warning hues, tinted for the background and border so both stay readable on any
+   theme. Before, write was an alert box and read a greyed-out label, which made read
+   look disabled rather than merely "not a write". */
 .kind-read {
-    color: var(--vscode-descriptionForeground);
-    background: var(--vscode-badge-background);
+    --kind-hue: var(--vscode-editorInfo-foreground, var(--vscode-textLink-foreground));
 }
 
 .kind-write {
-    color: var(--vscode-inputValidation-warningForeground, var(--vscode-foreground));
-    background: var(--vscode-inputValidation-warningBackground);
-    border-color: var(--vscode-inputValidation-warningBorder, transparent);
+    --kind-hue: var(--vscode-editorWarning-foreground, var(--vscode-charts-orange));
+}
+
+.kind-read,
+.kind-write {
+    color: var(--kind-hue);
+    background: color-mix(in srgb, var(--kind-hue) 16%, transparent);
+    border-color: color-mix(in srgb, var(--kind-hue) 45%, transparent);
 }
 
 /* --- filters popover ---------------------------------------------------- */

package.json

@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@
             "A read-only editor pane in the same language as the source, coloured by your theme.",
             "A webview panel with resizable, sortable columns and a containing-member column."
           ],
-          "default": "document",
+          "default": "panel",
           "description": "Which view Find All References (Colored) opens."
         },
         "coloredReferences.panelLocation": {

src/extension.ts

@@ -276,12 +276,51 @@ interface SearchTarget {
     view?: View;
 }
 
+/** Shape of the launcher's `dotnetSolution.languageServerStatus` answer. */
+interface LanguageServerStatus {
+    loaded: string[];
+    missing: string[];
+    foreign: string[];
+    unavailable: boolean;
+}
+
+/**
+ * "No references" means one of two things: there are none, or the language server never
+ * indexed the project. The .NET Solution Launcher, when installed, knows which projects
+ * DotRush reported loaded; ask it so the second case is not mistaken for the first.
+ */
+async function explainEmptyResult(symbol: string): Promise<void> {
+    let status: LanguageServerStatus | undefined;
+    try {
+        const commands = await vscode.commands.getCommands(true);
+        if (commands.includes('dotnetSolution.languageServerStatus')) {
+            status = await vscode.commands.executeCommand<LanguageServerStatus>('dotnetSolution.languageServerStatus');
+        }
+    } catch {
+        status = undefined;
+    }
+    if (!status || status.unavailable || (status.missing.length === 0 && status.foreign.length === 0)) {
+        vscode.window.setStatusBarMessage(`No references found for '${symbol}'`, 4000);
+        return;
+    }
+    const why = status.missing.length
+        ? `the language server has not loaded ${status.missing.join(', ')}`
+        : `the language server loaded projects outside this solution (${status.foreign.join(', ')})`;
+    const choice = await vscode.window.showWarningMessage(
+        `No references found for '${symbol}' — ${why}.`, 'Reload Workspace', 'Show Status');
+    if (choice === 'Reload Workspace') {
+        await vscode.commands.executeCommand('dotnetSolution.languageServerReload');
+    } else if (choice === 'Show Status') {
+        await vscode.commands.executeCommand('dotnetSolution.languageServerMenu');
+    }
+}
+
 async function runSearch(
     origin: Origin, languageId: string, symbol: string, target: SearchTarget = {},
 ): Promise<void> {
     const locations = await findReferences(origin, symbol);
     if (locations.length === 0) {
-        vscode.window.setStatusBarMessage(`No references found for '${symbol}'`, 4000);
+        await explainEmptyResult(symbol);
         return;
     }