Make Sidebar toggle button clearer

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Domain
design, desktop

Research direction

No source file or test is named. Start by locating the sidebar toggle button in the desktop UI and compare its current appearance and behavior with the issue screenshots and hamburger-button example; done means the control clearly communicates that it toggles the sidebar.

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Describe the solution you'd like?
I'd like the sidebar toggle button to better indicate that it toggles the sidebar.

I spent the first 15 minutes in the app confused by the sidebar that wouldn't go away.

The typical UI for toggling a sidebar is a hamburger button: https://codepen.io/tonkec/pen/gryZmg

But what we have is a button that appears to control a dropdown. I originally didn't associate it with the sidebar at all, I thought it was an extra button that controlled a different menu, like the second screenshot below.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

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Additional context

Screenshot of the button in question
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Screenshot of the behavior I expected based on the look of the button
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How important is this feature to you?

2

Warp Internal (ignore) - linear-label:770f6576-d6c0-4e4f-a259-fc64b5156087

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