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Gaauwe Rombouts a852bcc094 Improve system window tabs visibility (#37244 )

Follow up of https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/33334

After chatting with @MrSubidubi we found out that he had an old defaults
setting (most likely from when he encountered a previous window tabbing
bug):
```
❯ defaults read dev.zed.Zed-Nightly
{
    NSNavPanelExpandedSizeForOpenMode = "{800, 448}";
    NSNavPanelExpandedSizeForSaveMode = "{800, 448}";
    NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode = 1;
    NSOSPLastRootDirectory = {length = 828, bytes = 0x626f6f6b 3c030000 00000410 30000000 ... dc010000 00000000 };
    "NSWindow Frame NSNavPanelAutosaveName" = "557 1726 800 448 -323 982 2560 1440 ";
    "NSWindowTabbingShoudShowTabBarKey-GPUIWindow-GPUIWindow-(null)-HT-FS" = 1;
}
```

> That suffix is AppKit’s fallback autosave name when no tabbing
identifier is set. It encodes the NSWindow subclass (GPUIWindow), plus
traits like HT (hidden titlebar) and FS (fullscreen).

Which explains why it only happened on the Nightly build, since each
bundle has it's own defaults. It also explains why the tabbar would
disappear when he activated the `use_system_window_tabs` setting,
because with that setting activated, the tabbing identifier becomes
"zed" (instead of the default one when omitted) for which he didn't have
the `NSWindowTabbingShoudShowTabBarKey` default.

The original implementation was perhaps a bit naive and relied fully on
macOS to determine if the tabbar should be shown. I've updated the code
to always hide the tabbar, if the setting is turned off and there is
only 1 tab entry.

While testing, I also noticed that the menu's like 'merge all windows'
wouldn't become active when the setting was turned on, only after a full
workspace reload. So I added a setting observer as well, to immediately
set the correct window properties to enable all the features without a
reload.

Release Notes:

- N/A

2025-08-31 18:24:00 -06:00

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examples

Fix auto size rendering of SVG images in Markdown (#36663 )

2025-08-31 11:14:57 +03:00

resources/windows

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src

Improve system window tabs visibility (#37244 )

2025-08-31 18:24:00 -06:00

tests

Add #[serde(deny_unknown_fields)] to action structs that didn't have it (#33679 )

2025-07-01 00:20:02 +00:00

build.rs

Auto-fix clippy::collapsible_if violations (#36428 )

2025-08-19 13:27:24 +00:00

Cargo.toml

gpui: Introduce stacker to address stack overflows with deep layout trees (#35813 )

2025-08-19 08:26:37 +00:00

LICENSE-APACHE

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README.md

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README.md

Welcome to GPUI!

GPUI is a hybrid immediate and retained mode, GPU accelerated, UI framework for Rust, designed to support a wide variety of applications.

Getting Started

GPUI is still in active development as we work on the Zed code editor and isn't yet on crates.io. You'll also need to use the latest version of stable Rust and be on macOS or Linux. Add the following to your Cargo.toml:

gpui = { git = "https://github.com/zed-industries/zed" }

Everything in GPUI starts with an Application. You can create one with Application::new(), and kick off your application by passing a callback to Application::run(). Inside this callback, you can create a new window with App::open_window(), and register your first root view. See gpui.rs for a complete example.

Dependencies

GPUI has various system dependencies that it needs in order to work.

macOS

On macOS, GPUI uses Metal for rendering. In order to use Metal, you need to do the following:

Install Xcode from the macOS App Store, or from the Apple Developer website. Note this requires a developer account.

Ensure you launch XCode after installing, and install the macOS components, which is the default option.

Install Xcode command line tools
```
xcode-select --install
```
Ensure that the Xcode command line tools are using your newly installed copy of Xcode:
```
sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
```

The Big Picture

GPUI offers three different registers depending on your needs:

State management and communication with Entity's. Whenever you need to store application state that communicates between different parts of your application, you'll want to use GPUI's entities. Entities are owned by GPUI and are only accessible through an owned smart pointer similar to an Rc. See the app::context module for more information.
High level, declarative UI with views. All UI in GPUI starts with a view. A view is simply an Entity that can be rendered, by implementing the Render trait. At the start of each frame, GPUI will call this render method on the root view of a given window. Views build a tree of elements, lay them out and style them with a tailwind-style API, and then give them to GPUI to turn into pixels. See the div element for an all purpose swiss-army knife of rendering.
Low level, imperative UI with Elements. Elements are the building blocks of UI in GPUI, and they provide a nice wrapper around an imperative API that provides as much flexibility and control as you need. Elements have total control over how they and their child elements are rendered and can be used for making efficient views into large lists, implement custom layouting for a code editor, and anything else you can think of. See the element module for more information.

Each of these registers has one or more corresponding contexts that can be accessed from all GPUI services. This context is your main interface to GPUI, and is used extensively throughout the framework.

Other Resources

In addition to the systems above, GPUI provides a range of smaller services that are useful for building complex applications:

Actions are user-defined structs that are used for converting keystrokes into logical operations in your UI. Use this for implementing keyboard shortcuts, such as cmd-q. See the action module for more information.
Platform services, such as quit the app or open a URL are available as methods on the app::App.
An async executor that is integrated with the platform's event loop. See the executor module for more information.,
The [gpui::test] macro provides a convenient way to write tests for your GPUI applications. Tests also have their own kind of context, a TestAppContext which provides ways of simulating common platform input. See app::test_context and test modules for more details.

Currently, the best way to learn about these APIs is to read the Zed source code, ask us about it at a fireside hack, or drop a question in the Zed Discord. We're working on improving the documentation, creating more examples, and will be publishing more guides to GPUI on our blog.