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Subtle selection follow-ups: group header hairline, no focus re-render for legacy rows, cmux.json test - #15195

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Summary

Follow-up to #14890 with three review findings.

Group headers now carry the subtle selection hairline. With subtle selection on, a header whose anchor workspace is selected draws a 1 pt neutral edge around its neutral wash, and a multi-selected header draws the edge from the multi-selection style, the same edge selected workspace rows get. This applies to both the AppKit and SwiftUI header paths, including the optimistic press paint. With subtle selection off, headers look as before.

Legacy sidebar rows no longer re-render when the window gains or loses focus. TabItemView held @Environment(\.controlActiveState), which invalidated every row on activation changes. A small reader view now reads window activation only around the selection background of a selected row painted with the subtle selection. The subtle selection predicate (left rail, no configured selection color) is shared with the AppKit row's repaint gate.

Testing

Added a cmux.json test that writes workspaceColors.subtleSelection: true, loads the settings file store, and asserts SidebarTabItemSettingsSnapshot.subtleSelection resolves true, then that a non-boolean value is rejected. Added AppKit group header tests asserting the edge is drawn for anchor-active and multi-selected headers in subtle mode and not in legacy mode. The cmux.json test is committed separately first; it covers existing behavior, so it is not a red/green regression pair. The header tests use the new edge field, so they can't precede the fix.

Locally only Swift syntax parsing and the static checks ran. CI compiles and runs the tests. Not yet checked live in a tagged build.

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Fixed: With Subtle Selection Highlight on, selected workspace group headers show the same hairline edge as selected workspace rows

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  • Behavior changes have added or updated tests, or Testing says why not
  • UI, settings, menu, schema, help-text or user-facing docs change: localization audited, no new strings
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Follows up on the subtle selection work with three review fixes: group headers now draw the same hairline edge selected workspace rows get, and legacy sidebar rows stop re-rendering when the window gains or loses focus.

Bug Fixes

  • Anchor-active and multi-selected group headers with subtle selection on draw the 1 pt selection edge, matching selected workspace rows.
  • Applies to both AppKit and SwiftUI header paths, including the optimistic press paint, and legacy mode is unchanged.
  • TabItemView reads window activation only around the selection background of selected subtle-selection rows, so focus changes no longer invalidate every row.
  • Added a cmux.json test asserting workspaceColors.subtleSelection: true resolves and non-boolean values are rejected.

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  • Style
    • Refined selection styling in the sidebar, including clearer borders for active and multi-selected workspace group headers.
    • Updated subtle selection backgrounds to reflect window activity and the configured selection style.
    • Adjusted group-header corner rounding to better match its selection state.

teamleaderleo and others added 3 commits September 28, 2026 02:04
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…gacy rows off window activation

Group headers now paint the same 1 pt edge selected workspace rows get in
subtle-selection mode (neutral edge for the anchor-active header's neutral
wash, the multi-selection style's edge for multi-selected headers), in both
the AppKit and SwiftUI header paths including optimistic press paint.

TabItemView no longer holds @Environment(\.controlActiveState). A small
reader view reads window activation only around the selection background of
a selected subtle-selection row, so focus changes stop invalidating every
legacy sidebar row.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…the settings-file test defaults

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Workspace row backgrounds now use shared subtle-selection rules and scoped window-activation reads. Group headers receive selection-edge colors for active-anchor and multi-selection states. Tests cover group-header edge widths and the subtle-selection setting’s JSON parsing.

Changes

Sidebar selection styling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Workspace row selection styling
Sources/Sidebar/SidebarAppearanceSupport.swift, Sources/SidebarWorkspaceRowCellView.swift, Sources/ContentView.swift, cmuxTests/WorkspaceUnitTests.swift
Shared helpers determine subtle selection and group-header edge colors. Workspace rows use the shared selection predicate and read window activation only for selected rows using subtle selection. The settings test checks the default, boolean, and string values.
Group-header selection edges
Sources/Sidebar/AppKitList/Cells/SidebarGroupHeaderRowModel.swift, Sources/SidebarWorkspaceGroupRowSnapshot.swift, Sources/VerticalTabsSidebar+WorkspaceGroups.swift, Sources/SidebarWorkspaceGroupHeaderView.swift, Sources/Sidebar/AppKitList/Cells/SidebarGroupHeaderRowView.swift, cmuxTests/SidebarAppKitRowCellTests.swift
Group-header models and snapshots carry an optional active-anchor edge color. Row construction calculates and passes the color. AppKit and SwiftUI headers render selection edges, and tests check their widths for subtle and legacy selection.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: austinywang

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 7ffc1

The header-edge behavior has no established blocker, but the test-only accessor should be moved out of production source before merging.


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Cmux No Test Or Debug Seam In Production Source ❌ Error A new test-observability seam was added in Sources/Sidebar/AppKitList/Cells/SidebarGroupHeaderRowView.swift: #if DEBUG var selectionEdgeWidthForTesting. The member exposes `backgroundView.layer?.b… Remove selectionEdgeWidthForTesting from production source. Move the observation into the test target and access the required state through @testable import, widening private to internal only where needed. If a genuinely debug-only …
Description check ⚠️ Warning The description includes a clear summary, testing details, changelog entry, and checklist updates. It omits the required Demo Video section or screenshots for this UI behavior change. Add a Demo Video section with a short video or screenshots that show the subtle-selection hairline and the relevant sidebar behavior.
Docstring Coverage ❓ Inconclusive Docstring coverage is 37.04% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 27 functions across 9 files. (1 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main follow-up changes: the group-header hairline, reduced focus-triggered row rendering, and the settings test.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Cmux Cloud Persistent Session And Early Input ✅ Passed PASS: The PR changes only sidebar selection rendering, group-header edge colors, activation-state scoping, and related tests. The authoritative diff contains no Cloud terminal creation, cmux-tui clien…
Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed No actor-isolation failure is introduced. The changed SwiftUI types, including SidebarSelectionWindowActivationReader, are UI types and are allowed to use MainActor-bound environment state. The new …
Cmux Swift Blocking Runtime ✅ Passed PASS: The PR adds no blocking or timing-based synchronization in production Swift. The changed production code adds a SwiftUI environment reader and selection styling only. Exact added-line inspection…
Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only sidebar selection, group-header rendering, and settings tests. The authoritative diff does not modify Sources/TerminalController.swift, `ControlCommandExecutionPo…
Cmux Expensive Synchronous Load ✅ Passed PASS. The PR adds only sidebar selection styling, activation-state scoping, and tests. The production diff adds no agent-history loader, transcript/trajectory/JSONL parsing, directory scan, or per-rec…
Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed No cache substitution is introduced. The production diff changes transient sidebar rendering and immutable UI presentation snapshots: it computes selection-edge colors from current render settings and…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only .swift files. The custom check applies to TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, and non-Swift build/runtime scripts. No covered non-Swift timing change is present.
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff adds only constant-time per-row style and color decisions. Sources/Sidebar/SidebarAppearanceSupport.swift:359-395 uses boolean checks, optional color parsing, and one selec…
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed PASS: The PR does not introduce or materially expand any prohibited legacy async pattern. The authoritative diff adds no DispatchQueue, Task, Combine publisher/state, or completion-handler API. The on…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed The PR does not introduce or modify any async, nonisolated async, or @concurrent function. The new SidebarSelectionWindowActivationReader and selection helpers are synchronous SwiftUI code. Th…
Cmux Swift Package Boundaries ✅ Passed PASS: The production diff adds sidebar presentation behavior only. It updates SwiftUI and AppKit row/header rendering, color and edge styling, render snapshots, and a scoped controlActiveState reade…
Cmux Swiftpm Lockfiles ✅ Passed PASS: The review-scoped diff changes only Swift source and test files. It does not change a Package.swift dependency, any Package.resolved file, cmux.xcodeproj package references, .gitignore, workflow…
Cmux Swift Logging ✅ Passed The pull request adds no production logging. The authoritative diff changes ten Swift files, and the added lines contain no print, debugPrint, dump, NSLog, Logger, or ad hoc file/stdout logg…
Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed PASS: The production diff changes sidebar selection rendering, hairlines, and activation-state invalidation. It adds no user-facing errors, alerts, command output, API error bodies, or recovery copy. …
Cmux Full Internationalization ✅ Passed PASS: The production diff adds selection rendering and activation-state logic only. It adds no user-facing Swift text, localization keys, string-catalog entries, web messages, metadata, or changelog f…
Cmux Swiftui State Layout ✅ Passed The PR does not introduce a prohibited SwiftUI state or layout pattern. The new SidebarSelectionWindowActivationReader uses only @Environment and a value closure. TabItemView and `SidebarWorkspa…
Cmux Architecture Rethink ✅ Passed PASS. The diff does not add timing repairs, polling, locks, semaphores, or observers. The new SidebarSelectionWindowActivationReader is a local SwiftUI bridge that reads controlActiveState and pas…
Cmux Swift Auxiliary Window Close Shortcuts ✅ Passed PASS. The PR changes sidebar rendering, selection styling, and settings tests. The added SidebarSelectionWindowActivationReader reads controlActiveState; it does not create or configure an `NSWind…
Cmux Source Artifacts ✅ Passed All 10 changed paths are existing hand-written Swift source or test files under Sources/ and cmuxTests/. The diff adds selection logic, models, views, and tests. No logs, screenshots, recordings, …
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A new test-observability seam was added in Sources/Sidebar/AppKitList/Cells/SidebarGroupHeaderRowView.swift: #if DEBUG var selectionEdgeWidthForTesting. The member exposes backgroundView.layer?.borderWidth only for the new cmuxTests/SidebarAppKitRowCellTests.swift assertions, and it has no production caller. This matches the rule's prohibited #if DEBUG test accessor and …ForTesting member.

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rustybret pushed a commit to rustybret/bmux that referenced this pull request Sep 29, 2026
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