Fix SF Symbol materialization during window layout

[austinywang]

Summary

Fixes #10547.

NSImage(systemSymbolName:) keeps a lazy NSImageSymbolRepProvider. When that image reaches an AppKit-constrained view during an NSWindow layout pass, the provider can block the main thread for 8+ seconds. The shared AppKit symbol cache now rasterizes each configured symbol into an owned 2x bitmap before returning it, preserving template/tint behavior while making intrinsic-size queries constant-time. The titlebar accessory prewarms all configured icon sizes and replaces its remaining direct Image(systemName:) call sites before attaching to windows.

Tests

• Added a runtime regression test requiring bitmap-backed, template-preserving symbol images.
• Two commits intentionally separate the failing regression test from the fix.
• swiftc -parse passed for all changed Swift files.
• ./scripts/lint-pbxproj-test-wiring.sh passed.
• ./scripts/check-pbxproj.sh passed.
• python3 scripts/check-package-resolved-policy.py passed.

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Summary by cubic

Fixes AppKit window layout hangs by eliminating lazy SF Symbol materialization. Previously NSImage(systemSymbolName:) could block during window layout; now symbols are rasterized into a single 2x bitmap in configuredAppKitImage and common titlebar and notification icon variants are prewarmed, making intrinsic-size queries constant-time while preserving template/tint behavior.

• Replaces remaining titlebar Image(systemName:) uses with CmuxSystemSymbolImage.
• Prewarms plus, cloud, chevron.down, bell and variants, navigation arrows, and other small controls at configured sizes/weights during accessory startup.

Migration

• When adding titlebar or notification-popover icons, use CmuxSystemSymbolImage and update prewarmTitlebarSymbols() with the symbol name, sizes, and weight.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved reliability and consistency of system-symbol images in titlebar controls.
  • Preserved symbol appearance, sizing, weight, and template behavior when rendering images.
  • Preloaded titlebar and workspace icons to help prevent delays or missing images when controls appear.

• Tests

  • Added coverage verifying that configured template images are materialized correctly for layout and display.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change eagerly rasterizes configured AppKit symbols, prewarms titlebar symbol combinations during startup, and uses CmuxSystemSymbolImage for Cloud VM titlebar controls. Tests verify template images contain bitmap and TIFF representations.

Changes

AppKit symbol prewarming

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Materialize configured AppKit symbols Sources/RenderableSystemSymbol.swift	Configured symbols now use owned 2× bitmap representations. Failed materialization returns nil.
Prewarm and use titlebar symbols Sources/Update/UpdateTitlebarAccessory.swift, Sources/Update/TitlebarCloudVMButton.swift, cmuxTests/RenderableSystemSymbolTests.swift	Titlebar startup prewarms configured symbol combinations. Cloud VM controls use CmuxSystemSymbolImage. Tests verify eager rasterization.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 6c2b6

The change eagerly rasterizes symbols, but a failed rasterization for one size can temporarily suppress valid renderings of the same symbol at other sizes; merge should wait for this cache-keying issue to be fixed or explicitly accepted.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant UpdateTitlebarAccessoryController
  participant prewarmTitlebarSymbols
  participant prewarmAppKitImages
  participant materializedImage
  participant TitlebarCloudVMButton
  UpdateTitlebarAccessoryController->>prewarmTitlebarSymbols: start titlebar initialization
  prewarmTitlebarSymbols->>prewarmAppKitImages: preload configured symbol combinations
  prewarmAppKitImages->>materializedImage: rasterize symbols into 2× bitmaps
  materializedImage-->>prewarmAppKitImages: return owned template images
  TitlebarCloudVMButton->>prewarmAppKitImages: use prewarmed control symbols

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❌ Failed checks (1 error, 1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Cmux No Ambient Global State	❌ Error	Sources/RenderableSystemSymbol.swift:144 adds internal static prewarmAppKitImages to the caseless, static-helper RenderableSystemSymbol namespace; this is new ambient global behavior, not incidenta...	Move symbol caching, materialization, and prewarming to a constructable SymbolImageRenderer/cache type. Create and inject it at the titlebar or app seam, and pass it to the SwiftUI views.
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 16.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 12 functions across 4 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (23 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes address issue #10547 by eagerly rasterizing and prewarming SF Symbols before window layout.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	All code and test changes directly support SF Symbol materialization and titlebar prewarming objectives.
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation	✅ Passed	The PR adds explicit @MainActor isolation to AppKit prewarming/materialization and calls it from an existing @MainActor controller; changed SwiftUI views and MainActor tests are allowed cases.
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime	✅ Passed	The diff adds bounded synchronous symbol rasterization only. It adds no waits, sleeps, delayed dispatch, polling, main-queue sync, or locks; existing asyncAfter calls are unchanged.
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main	✅ Passed	The PR changes only AppKit/SwiftUI symbol materialization and titlebar code; its two-commit diff adds no browser.* command or socket-worker routing change.
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load	✅ Passed	The diff adds only bounded AppKit SF Symbol rasterization and titlebar prewarming; it adds no agent-history loader, transcript/JSONL parsing, directory scan, or per-record syscall on an interactive...
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness	✅ Passed	The diff changes only in-memory symbol image caching and transient titlebar UI prewarming; it does not replace an authoritative read in persistence, history, undo, or snapshot paths.
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps	✅ Passed	The PR diff across both commits contains only Swift files, and the rule explicitly scopes Swift timing and blocking primitives out of this check.
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity	✅ Passed	The only new nested scan prewarms 3+2+1 fixed symbols across 5 TitlebarControlsStyle cases; the 256-entry cache is bounded, with no scalable-record rescans or hot-path sorting/filtering introduced.
Cmux Swift Concurrency	✅ Passed	The PR adds no Dispatch, Task, Combine, publisher, or completion-handler pattern; prewarming is synchronous @MainActor AppKit work, and the new XCTest is @MainActor.
Cmux Swift @Concurrent	✅ Passed	The PR adds only synchronous @MainActor symbol prewarming/materialization and call-site changes; it introduces no async, nonisolated, or @concurrent code covered by the rule.
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries	✅ Passed	The diff adds AppKit NSImage rasterization to existing app-target symbol/UI code and titlebar lifecycle glue; the rule explicitly allows AppKit bridges, UI, and app-lifecycle composition.
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles	✅ Passed	The PR diff contains only four Swift source/test files; it changes no Package.swift, Package.resolved, .gitignore, workflow, dependency, or Xcode project package references.
Cmux Swift Logging	✅ Passed	The diff adds no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, file/stdout logging, Logger, or sensitive-data logging; changed Swift files contain no logging constructs.
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy	✅ Passed	The production diff adds symbol rasterization and icon call sites only; it adds no user-facing errors, alerts, recovery text, raw messages, or sensitive diagnostics.
Cmux Full Internationalization	✅ Passed	The PR changes only symbol rendering, AppKit prewarming, icon call sites, and tests; no user-facing text, localization keys, catalogs, or web locale data changed.
Cmux Swiftui State Layout	✅ Passed	The diff only replaces symbol views and adds AppKit prewarming/materialization; it adds no ObservableObject state, GeometryReader, lazy-row store reference, or render-time SwiftUI state write.
Cmux Architecture Rethink	✅ Passed	The diff adds a documented @MainActor AppKit bitmap bridge and shared prewarm path; the cache, observers, and delayed scans predate the PR, with no new prohibited timing or duplicate owner.
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts	✅ Passed	The diff only materializes symbols and updates existing titlebar accessory views; it adds no standalone NSWindow, NSPanel, Window, or WindowGroup requiring cmux close-shortcut ownership.
Cmux Source Artifacts	✅ Passed	The PR changes only four intentional Swift source/test paths; the diff contains no logs, caches, build output, temp directories, screenshots, recordings, or other source-control artifacts.
Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source	✅ Passed	The production diff adds product-used prewarming and a private materializer; it adds no test/debug guard or seam-named member. The existing DEBUG reset seam is unchanged.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: fixing SF Symbol materialization during window layout.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly covers the change and testing, but omits the template's demo video, review trigger, and checklist sections.

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Greptile Summary

The PR eagerly rasterizes configured SF Symbols into bitmap-backed template images and prewarms titlebar and notification-popover configurations before window attachment.

• Adds bitmap materialization and bounded prewarming support to RenderableSystemSymbol.
• Replaces remaining titlebar system-image views with CmuxSystemSymbolImage.
• Covers every symbol configuration identified in the previous notification-popover finding.
• Adds regression coverage for bitmap backing, template behavior, and materialized image data.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge.

No blocking failure remains; the current prewarm matrix matches the symbol names, sizes, and weights from the previously reported notification-popover layout path.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
Sources/RenderableSystemSymbol.swift	Adds eager bitmap materialization and cache prewarming while preserving template and logical-size behavior.
Sources/Update/TitlebarCloudVMButton.swift	Routes the plus, dropdown, and cloud titlebar icons through the materialized symbol component.
Sources/Update/UpdateTitlebarAccessory.swift	Prewarms titlebar and notification-popover symbol configurations before attaching views to windows.
cmuxTests/RenderableSystemSymbolTests.swift	Verifies configured symbols are bitmap-backed, template-preserving, and eagerly materialized.

Sequence Diagram

sequenceDiagram
  participant Startup as Titlebar accessory startup
  participant Cache as RenderableSystemSymbol cache
  participant AppKit as AppKit symbol renderer
  participant Layout as Window layout
  Startup->>Cache: Prewarm configured symbol keys
  Cache->>AppKit: Resolve and draw each symbol
  AppKit-->>Cache: Owned 2x bitmap template
  Layout->>Cache: Request configured icon
  Cache-->>Layout: Return materialized bitmap

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Inline comments:
In `@Sources/RenderableSystemSymbol.swift`:
- Around line 209-211: Update the materialization-failure path in the symbol
rendering method around materializedImage and renderabilityCache: do not cache
false under the systemName-only renderability key, since failures are
size/context-specific. Cache the failure using AppKitImageCacheKey if an
appropriate image cache exists, or preserve symbol renderability as true after
NSImage(systemSymbolName:) succeeds.

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