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Summary

  • complete the opt-in native render-state pipeline with Kitty direct and Unicode virtual image placements
  • add synchronous PNG decoding, copied RGBA snapshots, generation-aware image caching, source cropping, and Ghostty-compatible image layers
  • honor the native cursor color and animate cursor and styled-text blinking
  • align the initial web title, bump the Flutter package to beta.2 dependencies, document the renderer, and run the full package suite in Chrome CI

Validation

  • flutter analyze
  • 187 native Flutter tests
  • 187 Chrome Flutter tests
  • focused controller cache-generation and swap coverage
  • flutter build web --wasm for the example, including the bundled Ghostty wasm asset
  • isolated hosted consumer downloaded and checksum-verified ghostty_vte-v0.2.0-beta.2 and portable_pty-v0.0.7-beta.2 native assets without Rust or Zig
  • live Linux renderer showcase covering direct PNG placement, Unicode virtual placement, native cursor color, and blink states

Notes

The Unicode placeholder protocol is reconstructed in Dart from Ghostty render-state cells, so this does not require a new Ghostty C API or a downstream Ghostty patch.

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  • New Features

    • Added Kitty Graphics image rendering, including direct and Unicode virtual placements.
    • Added native cursor-color support when no custom color is configured.
    • Added blinking cursors and styled text.
    • Web terminal titles now match native behavior.
    • Published packages now include required web and native runtime assets automatically.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved image placement, scaling, layering, caching, and cleanup.
  • Tests

    • Added Chrome web tests covering graphics, cursor colors, blinking, and image placement.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The Flutter VTE package updates its beta release setup and adds native Kitty Graphics rendering for direct and Unicode virtual placements. It also supports native cursor colors, cursor and styled-text blinking, image caching, RGBA decoding, web title alignment, and Chrome tests.

Changes

VTE rendering and release update

Layer / File(s) Summary
Release and platform setup
.github/workflows/vte.yml, pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte_flutter/pubspec.yaml, pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte_flutter/README.md, pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte_flutter/CHANGELOG.md, pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte_flutter/example/*, pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte_flutter/lib/src/terminal_controller_web.dart
The package moves to 0.2.0-beta.2, documents bundled web assets and native prebuilts, updates example instructions, excludes generated platform directories from analysis, aligns the web title, and adds Chrome CI tests.
Kitty placeholder and snapshot contract
pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte_flutter/lib/src/kitty_virtual_placeholder.dart, pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte_flutter/lib/src/terminal_render_model.dart
The renderer decodes Kitty Unicode placeholders and exposes immutable image, placement, layer, geometry, and unresolved-placement data.
Native image decoding and extraction
pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte_flutter/lib/src/terminal_controller_native.dart, pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte_flutter/test/terminal_controller_test.dart
The native controller installs PNG decoding, extracts and caches Kitty images, reconstructs virtual placements, converts supported pixels to RGBA, and tests image and cursor snapshot data.
Flutter painting, blinking, and lifecycle
pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte_flutter/lib/src/terminal_view.dart, pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte_flutter/test/terminal_view_test.dart
The view resolves cursor colors, synchronizes blinking, manages decoded-image caches, paints Kitty layers with placement geometry, separates render phases, and tests cursor, blink, and placement rendering.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 84936

This PR adds native terminal image rendering and virtual placements, but low-resolution images may still fail to render across multi-cell grids, while crafted or numerous images can consume CPU and memory during synchronous decoding and stall the UI. Merge should wait for these issues to be fixed or explicitly accepted with appropriate limits.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GhosttyVtTerminal
  participant GhosttyTerminalController
  participant GhosttyTerminalRenderSnapshot
  participant GhosttyTerminalView
  GhosttyVtTerminal->>GhosttyTerminalController: provide terminal render state
  GhosttyTerminalController->>GhosttyTerminalRenderSnapshot: extract images and placements
  GhosttyTerminalRenderSnapshot->>GhosttyTerminalView: deliver immutable snapshot
  GhosttyTerminalView->>GhosttyTerminalView: decode, cache, and paint Kitty images
  GhosttyTerminalView->>GhosttyTerminalView: update cursor and text blink visibility
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A rabbit checks the image stream
Kitty tiles appear in a beam
Cursors use the native hue
Styled text blinks on schedule too
Chrome tests trace the rendered flow
Beta assets are ready to go

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In `@pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte_flutter/lib/src/terminal_view.dart`:
- Line 486: Update _onControllerChanged so controller notifications no longer
reset the styled-text blink phase via _syncAnimatedRenderState’s default
resetBlinkPhase behavior. If activity should keep the cursor visible, reset only
the cursor phase while preserving the running styled-text blink timer; otherwise
invoke the synchronization without resetting blink state.

In `@pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte_flutter/test/terminal_view_test.dart`:
- Around line 579-580: Update both Kitty placement tests to await a completion
signal tied to the decodeImageFromPixels callback used by _syncKittyImages
before capturing pixels; do not rely solely on consecutive pump calls or
Future.delayed(Duration.zero), and preserve the existing pixel assertions.
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pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte_flutter/pubspec.yaml (1)

6-6: LGTM!

Also applies to: 28-30

pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte_flutter/example/pubspec.yaml (1)

34-34: LGTM!

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.github/workflows/vte.yml (1)

242-244: LGTM!

pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte_flutter/lib/src/terminal_controller_web.dart (1)

65-65: LGTM!

pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte_flutter/README.md (1)

40-40: LGTM!

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pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte_flutter/analysis_options.yaml (1)

1-9: LGTM!

pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte_flutter/example/analysis_options.yaml (1)

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7-7: LGTM!

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23-47: LGTM!

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81-82: 🎯 Functional Correctness

No change needed.

_kittyRowColumnDiacritics matches Kitty’s canonical list in content, order, and length: 297 entries.

pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte_flutter/lib/src/terminal_render_model.dart (1)

552-562: LGTM!

Also applies to: 564-593, 595-647, 660-662, 686-695

pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte_flutter/lib/src/terminal_controller_native.dart (3)

19-31: LGTM!


1217-1222: LGTM!

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1317-1365: LGTM!

pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte_flutter/test/terminal_controller_test.dart (1)

242-288: LGTM!

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pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte_flutter/lib/src/terminal_view.dart (5)

531-578: LGTM!

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419-430: LGTM!

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167-167: LGTM!

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pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte_flutter/test/terminal_view_test.dart (2)

76-76: LGTM!

Also applies to: 114-116, 468-507, 596-617


535-543: 🩺 Stability & Availability

Do not replace pumpAndSettle based on the blink timer.

pumpAndSettle checks hasScheduledFrame; it does not wait for pending timers. The periodic timer schedules a frame only when its 500 ms callback runs, so the timer alone does not make settling infinite. A 500 ms pump may toggle _blinkPhaseVisible, but it does not guarantee the visible phase.

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3691-3705: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Keep virtual image source rectangles fractional.

The source rectangle rounds fractional coordinates to whole pixels. A 1x1 image placed across two or more virtual cells produces fractional source tiles. Rounding can create empty or out-of-bounds source regions, so valid low-resolution virtual images do not render across the placement grid.

Pass sourceX, sourceY, sourceWidth, and sourceHeight directly to Rect.fromLTWH. Add a regression test for a 1x1 image placed across multiple virtual columns.

Proposed fix
 source: Rect.fromLTWH(
-  sourceX.roundToDouble(),
-  sourceY.roundToDouble(),
-  sourceWidth.roundToDouble(),
-  sourceHeight.roundToDouble(),
+  sourceX,
+  sourceY,
+  sourceWidth,
+  sourceHeight,
 ),
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In `@pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte_flutter/lib/src/terminal_view.dart` around lines 3691 -
3705, Update the source rectangle construction in the placement calculation to
pass sourceX, sourceY, sourceWidth, and sourceHeight directly to Rect.fromLTWH
without rounding; retain rounding for destination coordinates and dimensions,
and add a regression test covering a 1x1 image spanning multiple virtual
columns.
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In `@pkgs/vte/ghostty_vte_flutter/lib/src/terminal_view.dart`:
- Around line 3691-3705: Update the source rectangle construction in the
placement calculation to pass sourceX, sourceY, sourceWidth, and sourceHeight
directly to Rect.fromLTWH without rounding; retain rounding for destination
coordinates and dimensions, and add a regression test covering a 1x1 image
spanning multiple virtual columns.

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Addressed the latest outside-diff Kitty finding in 8493631. Virtual source rectangles now retain fractional coordinates while destination geometry remains pixel-snapped. Added a 1x1 RGB image regression spanning two virtual columns across a line wrap; it failed on the rounded source rectangle and passes with the fix. Focused Kitty renderer tests (3) and Flutter analysis pass.

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