## 🎯 Description
Adds configurable window control buttons (minimize, maximize, close)
positioning for Linux, allowing users to choose between macOS-style
(left side) or Windows-style (right side) placement.
## ✨ Features
- New `title_bar.window_controls_position` setting with `"left"` and
`"right"` options
- Left positioning: macOS style (Close → Minimize → Maximize)
- Right positioning: Windows style (Minimize → Maximize → Close)
- Fixed transparent background issues for window controls
- Maintains consistent styling with Zed's theme
## 🔧 Technical Changes
### Settings System
- Added `WindowControlsPosition` enum in `settings_content.rs`
- Extended `TitleBarSettingsContent` with `window_controls_position`
field
- Updated `TitleBarSettings` to include the new configuration
### Title Bar Layout
- Modified `platform_title_bar.rs` to use setting for layout positioning
- Added conditional logic for `justify_start()` vs `justify_between()`
based on position
- Fixed transparent container background by adding `bg(titlebar_color)`
### Window Controls
- Updated `platform_linux.rs` to reorder buttons based on position
setting
- Changed button background from `ghost_element_background` to
`title_bar_background`
- Implemented proper button sequencing for both positions
## 🧪 How to Test
1. Add to your Zed settings:
```json
{
"title_bar": {
"window_controls_position": "left"
}
}
```
or
```json
{
"title_bar": {
"window_controls_position": "right"
}
}
```
2. Restart Zed
3. Verify buttons are positioned correctly
4. Check that background is not transparent
5. Test button functionality (minimize, maximize, close)
## �� Expected Behavior
- **Left position**: Buttons appear on the left side of the title bar in
Close → Minimize → Maximize order
- **Right position**: Buttons appear on the right side of the title bar
in Minimize → Maximize → Close order
- **Background**: Solid background matching Zed's theme (no
transparency)
## 🔍 Files Changed
- `crates/settings/src/settings_content.rs` - Added enum and setting
- `crates/title_bar/src/title_bar_settings.rs` - Updated settings struct
- `crates/title_bar/src/platform_title_bar.rs` - Modified layout logic
- `crates/title_bar/src/platforms/platform_linux.rs` - Updated button
ordering and styling
## 🎨 Design Rationale
This feature provides Linux users with the flexibility to choose their
preferred window control button layout, improving the user experience by
allowing them to match their desktop environment's conventions or
personal preferences.
## ✅ Checklist
- [x] Code compiles without errors
- [x] Settings are properly serialized/deserialized
- [x] Background transparency issues resolved
- [x] Button ordering works correctly for both positions
- [x] Layout adapts properly based on configuration
- [x] No breaking changes to existing functionality
## 🔗 Related
This addresses the need for customizable window control positioning on
Linux, providing consistency with user expectations from different
desktop environments.
Allows setting element as window control elements which consist of
`Drag`, `Close`, `Max`, or `Min`. This allows you to implement
dynamically sized elements that control the platform window, this is
used for areas such as the title bar. Currently only implemented for
Windows.
Release Notes:
- N/A
There's still a bit more work to do on this, but this PR is compiling
(with warnings) after eliminating the key types. When the tasks below
are complete, this will be the new narrative for GPUI:
- `Entity<T>` - This replaces `View<T>`/`Model<T>`. It represents a unit
of state, and if `T` implements `Render`, then `Entity<T>` implements
`Element`.
- `&mut App` This replaces `AppContext` and represents the app.
- `&mut Context<T>` This replaces `ModelContext` and derefs to `App`. It
is provided by the framework when updating an entity.
- `&mut Window` Broken out of `&mut WindowContext` which no longer
exists. Every method that once took `&mut WindowContext` now takes `&mut
Window, &mut App` and every method that took `&mut ViewContext<T>` now
takes `&mut Window, &mut Context<T>`
Not pictured here are the two other failed attempts. It's been quite a
month!
Tasks:
- [x] Remove `View`, `ViewContext`, `WindowContext` and thread through
`Window`
- [x] [@cole-miller @mikayla-maki] Redraw window when entities change
- [x] [@cole-miller @mikayla-maki] Get examples and Zed running
- [x] [@cole-miller @mikayla-maki] Fix Zed rendering
- [x] [@mikayla-maki] Fix todo! macros and comments
- [x] Fix a bug where the editor would not be redrawn because of view
caching
- [x] remove publicness window.notify() and replace with
`AppContext::notify`
- [x] remove `observe_new_window_models`, replace with
`observe_new_models` with an optional window
- [x] Fix a bug where the project panel would not be redrawn because of
the wrong refresh() call being used
- [x] Fix the tests
- [x] Fix warnings by eliminating `Window` params or using `_`
- [x] Fix conflicts
- [x] Simplify generic code where possible
- [x] Rename types
- [ ] Update docs
### issues post merge
- [x] Issues switching between normal and insert mode
- [x] Assistant re-rendering failure
- [x] Vim test failures
- [x] Mac build issue
Release Notes:
- N/A
---------
Co-authored-by: Antonio Scandurra <me@as-cii.com>
Co-authored-by: Cole Miller <cole@zed.dev>
Co-authored-by: Mikayla <mikayla@zed.dev>
Co-authored-by: Joseph <joseph@zed.dev>
Co-authored-by: max <max@zed.dev>
Co-authored-by: Michael Sloan <michael@zed.dev>
Co-authored-by: Mikayla Maki <mikaylamaki@Mikaylas-MacBook-Pro.local>
Co-authored-by: Mikayla <mikayla.c.maki@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: joão <joao@zed.dev>
Continuing from #13597, this PR refactors platform controls to extract a
generic set of platform controls that can be used for any platform that
does not define it's own/we don't use the system ones.
In the future, these controls will likely be used as a fallback on
windows as well when the windows icon font isn't available.
Release Notes:
- Added updated window controls on Linux
This PR extracts a singular title bar (`title_bar::TitleBar`) from
`ui::TitleBar` and
`collab_ui::collab_titlebar_item::CollabTitlebarItem`.
This is a first step towards organizing title bar things into one place,
and standardizing platform titlebar/window control implementations.
Release Notes:
- N/A
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