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Stop sidebar close buttons flashing on every row after a close - #14826

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Summary

Closing a workspace in the sidebar sometimes flashed the hover-only close (X) button on every row at once.

Root cause: a close is a structural change, so the AppKit sidebar table runs reloadData and every visible row gets a fresh or recycled cell.

  • SidebarHeaderGlyphButton is an NSButton, which is born visible (isHidden == false, alpha 1). On a fresh cell the first unhovered configure called setRevealed(false), which faded the X out from full opacity over 120 ms. Every newly made row flashed its X.
  • prepareForReuse did not clear isPointerHovering or the button state. The hovered row (usually the one just closed, pointer on its X) could be recycled onto an unrelated row and fade its X out there.

Fix: hover-revealed buttons (row close, group header plus) start concealed via concealImmediately(), and prepareForReuse clears the hover flag and snaps the button hidden. Hover reveal and hide animations are unchanged for real pointer transitions.

This is the same flash reported in #8447 (appearance toggle forces a table reload too).

Bonsplit's pane tab bar was checked too: its tabs key hover as per-tab @State under ForEach(id: \.tab.id) with no shared state, so no bonsplit change is needed.

Tests

SidebarAppKitRowCellTests:

  • closeButtonStaysConcealedOnFreshUnhoveredCell: fresh and first-configured cells never paint the X.
  • recycledHoveredCellSnapsCloseButtonHidden: a hovered cell recycled onto an unhovered row keeps the X hidden with alpha 0.

Also: hover after menus and drags

Tracking events stop while a context menu or drag session runs. After "Close Workspace" from a row's context menu, the hover recompute used the point where the menu opened, and revealed the X on whichever row slid into that spot, even with the pointer over the terminal.

Recomputes that no event drove (applies, menu close, viewport) now read the window's live pointer, still gated on the tracking area having the pointer inside the table. The resolver also rejects points outside the table's visible rect, since row(at:) matches on y alone. Event-delivered points stay authoritative. Test: SidebarWorkspaceTableTests.hoverIgnoresPointerOutsideVisibleTableRect.

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The earlier red run failed only SidebarWorkspaceRowSuspensionTests/transientWindowReparentingPreservesChecklistPopover(), the known main failure on owned macOS 26.5.1 minis (fixed by #14830, tracked in #14791). This PR's new tests passed in that job.

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Fixes the sidebar close (X) buttons flashing on every row after closing a workspace, and fixes hover state getting stuck after context menus and drags.

Bug Fixes

  • Closing a workspace reloads the AppKit table; fresh cells now start the close button concealed instead of fading it out from full opacity, and prepareForReuse clears the hover flag and snaps the button hidden. Same fix covers the appearance toggle reload (AppKit sidebar: hover-only close (X) buttons flash on all rows for a moment when toggling 'Match terminal background' #8447).
  • Hover recomputes that no event drove (menu close, drag end, viewport changes) now read the live pointer and reject points outside the table's visible rect, so closing a workspace from a row menu no longer reveals an X on an unrelated row.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Sidebar group-header and workspace-row buttons now stay concealed until their hover interaction makes them visible.
    • When moving between sidebar items, buttons no longer carry over a visible state from the previously displayed item.
    • Hover effects now correctly ignore pointer positions outside the visible sidebar table.

Closing a workspace reloads the AppKit sidebar table, so every visible
row gets a fresh or recycled cell. SidebarHeaderGlyphButton is born
visible (NSButton default), so the first unhovered configure on a fresh
cell faded an X out from full opacity. Recycled cells kept the old
row's hover flag and revealed button, so the row that was just closed
could fade its X out on an unrelated row.

Hover-revealed buttons (row close, group header plus) now start
concealed and snap hidden with the hover flag cleared in
prepareForReuse. Also covers #8447 (same flash on the appearance toggle
reload).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Sidebar row action buttons are concealed during initialization and reuse. Workspace table hover resolution uses live pointer locations and ignores points outside the visible table rectangle. Tests cover close-button visibility and hover bounds.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Conceal action buttons on initialization and reuse
Sources/Sidebar/AppKitList/Cells/SidebarGroupHeaderRowView.swift, Sources/Sidebar/AppKitList/Cells/SidebarWorkspaceRowCellView.swift, cmuxTests/SidebarAppKitRowCellTests.swift
Group-header plus buttons and workspace close buttons are concealed during initialization and reuse. Reuse clears stored hover state. Tests check close-button visibility before hover and after reuse.
Resolve hover from live pointer within visible bounds
Sources/Sidebar/AppKitList/SidebarWorkspaceTableViewImpl.swift, Sources/Sidebar/AppKitList/SidebarWorkspaceTableController.swift, Sources/Sidebar/AppKitList/SidebarWorkspaceTableHoverResolver.swift, cmuxTests/SidebarWorkspaceTableTests.swift
Hover recomputation uses the supplied event point or the live pointer location. The resolver returns no row when the converted point is outside the visible table rectangle. Tests cover points inside and outside the rectangle.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: azooz2003-bit, austinywang

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The sidebar hover changes appear bounded, but the new debug-only test accessor remains in production source contrary to the repository rule. Move or remove that seam before merging.


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Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ❌ Error Sources/Sidebar/AppKitList/Cells/SidebarWorkspaceRowCellView.swift adds the #if DEBUG member closeButtonPaintForTesting (lines 629–636). It exposes private closeButton state only for the new t… Remove closeButtonPaintForTesting from the production file. Change private let closeButton to internal let closeButton if direct observation is required, then update the @testable import cmux_DEV tests to read `cell.closeButton.isHi…
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the primary change: preventing sidebar close buttons from flashing after a workspace closes.
Description check ✅ Passed The description provides a detailed Summary and Testing section. It explains the root cause, implementation, affected behavior, and named tests. The Demo Video and Checklist sections are omitted, but …
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input ✅ Passed PASS. The review-scoped diff changes only AppKit sidebar hover/reuse behavior and related tests. It introduces no Cloud terminal creation, cmux-tui client, PTY readiness gate, manual renderer, transpo…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed The production changes do not introduce or worsen an actor-isolation mistake. The changed UI classes, including SidebarHeaderGlyphButton, SidebarWorkspaceRowTableCellView, `SidebarGroupHeaderTable…
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed The production diff adds no semaphores, blocking waits, sleeps, delayed dispatch, polling, main-queue sync, or manual locks. It adds immediate UI concealment and pointer-location checks. The existing …
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS: The PR changes only sidebar AppKit table/cell code and related tests. It does not change Sources/TerminalController.swift, ControlCommandExecutionPolicy.swift, browser socket commands, WebKi…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed PASS: The production diff only adds button concealment, reuse-state reset, and pointer/visible-rectangle hover resolution. It adds no RestorableAgentSessionIndex.load(), agent-store/transcript/traje…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed PASS. The diff only changes transient sidebar hover and button presentation. It adds immediate concealment for recycled UI controls and uses the live window pointer for hover recomputation. No persist…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request changes only Swift source and Swift tests. The rule applies to non-Swift TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, and build/runtime scripts. The diff adds no fixed sleep, timer, polling l…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff adds only constant-time state resets, pointer reads, rectangle containment, one row lookup, and an indexed rows[$0] access. It introduces no loops, nested collection scans,…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed The diff introduces no flagged legacy concurrency pattern. Added production code only changes AppKit hover state, button concealment, pointer lookup, and resolver parameters. The added tests are synch…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed The PR changes only synchronous AppKit methods, properties, and tests. The changed declarations add no async, nonisolated, or @concurrent work. The modified controller and table types remain `@M…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed The changed production code is AppKit sidebar UI and event glue. It adds immediate concealment and reuse reset to NSButton-based cells, reads the live NSEvent window pointer, and filters NSRect …
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed The pull request changes only sidebar Swift source files and tests. It does not change a SwiftPM package, Package.resolved, Xcode project, .gitignore, workflow, or dependency declaration. The SwiftPM …
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed The PR changes production Swift UI state, hover resolution, and tests only. The added code contains no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, ad hoc file/stdout logging, Logger declarations, or sensi…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed The PR changes sidebar button visibility and pointer-hover resolution. The production diff adds no user-facing error, alert, command output, API error body, or recovery text. Added strings are develop…
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed The PR adds no user-facing text or localization/catalog changes. Production additions only change button state and hover-point handling; the added English prose is in developer comments and tests, whi…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed The pull request changes only AppKit sidebar cells, table hover handling, and tests. The changed production types are NSTableCellView, NSButton, NSTableView, and related helpers. The diff adds no new …
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed PASS. The diff makes small local AppKit state-reset fixes. SidebarHeaderGlyphButton.concealImmediately() establishes the concealed initial and reuse state, while the existing cell hover state and co…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes sidebar NSTableCellView/NSTableView behavior and test fixtures only. The diff adds no NSWindow, NSPanel, NSWindowController, SwiftUI Window, WindowGroup, window identifi…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes only seven existing Swift source and test files under Sources/Sidebar/... and cmuxTests/. The diff adds hover-button behavior, table hover resolution, and focused tests. It ad…
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Sources/Sidebar/AppKitList/Cells/SidebarWorkspaceRowCellView.swift adds the #if DEBUG member closeButtonPaintForTesting (lines 629–636). It exposes private closeButton state only for the new tests, which call it at cmuxTests/SidebarAppKitRowCellTests.swift:1860–1887; no production caller exists. This is a test-observability seam added to production source and matches the rule’s explicit …ForTesting and #if DEBUG failure conditions. The other #if DEBUG additions are not required for this finding.

Resolution

Remove closeButtonPaintForTesting from the production file. Change private let closeButton to internal let closeButton if direct observation is required, then update the @testable import cmux_DEV tests to read cell.closeButton.isHidden and cell.closeButton.alphaValue directly. This follows the canonical #6452 fix.

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var closeButtonPaintForTesting: (isHidden: Bool, alpha: CGFloat) {
(closeButton.isHidden, closeButton.alphaValue)
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Move the test probe out of production source.

closeButtonPaintForTesting adds a test-only accessor to a production Sources/ file. Expose the underlying state internally for inspection from the test target with @testable import, or isolate a genuinely debug-only facility in a dedicated debug file.

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lines 634 - 636, Move closeButtonPaintForTesting out of
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Tracking events stop while a context menu or drag session runs, so
recomputes after "Close Workspace" from a row menu used the point where
the menu opened and revealed the X on whichever row slid into it, even
with the pointer over the terminal. Recomputes that no event drove now
read the window's live pointer (still gated on the tracking area having
the pointer inside), and the resolver rejects points outside the table's
visible rect since row(at:) matches on y alone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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teamleaderleo added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 27, 2026
…idebar close fixes (#14885)

Pulls manaflow-ai/bonsplit#253 (strip-owned tab hover, Close Tab
accessibility action) and records the merged sidebar fixes #14826 and
#14866 under Unreleased.

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rustybret pushed a commit to rustybret/bmux that referenced this pull request Sep 27, 2026
8e27d37 Bump bonsplit for tab hover that follows the pointer; changelog for sidebar close fixes (manaflow-ai#14885)
5d24cf4 test: free hosted test terminals before the test returns (manaflow-ai#14886)
e34ab0a Apply sidebar workspace close/create as row edits instead of reloadData (manaflow-ai#14866)
ec763d5 Stop sidebar close buttons flashing on every row after a close (manaflow-ai#14826)
8f9c685 Restore legacy Subrouter Claude sessions through the proxy (manaflow-ai#14412)
7e2157e test: expect the Claude Teams restore preload to survive an unusable TMPDIR (manaflow-ai#14880)
f16e4e7 Fix prediction echo misses on sgr0 and bound keys, keep pinned-group windows on restore (manaflow-ai#14860)
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