The main motivation behind the split is to simplify client buffer code
and allow adding new features easier, for example referencing the shm
pool when a shm buffer is destroyed, or monitoring for readable linux
dmabuf file descriptors, etc.
Also, a referenced ClientBuffer cannot be destroyed, unlike the old
BufferInterface.
The internal EventQueue is a child of the registry object. This means
that after the registry is destroyed, all proxy objects in that event
queue are going to have invalid reference to it, which is not a problem
as long as the wl_display_dispatch() function is not called.
The wl_display_dispatch() function uses wl_proxy's queue reference to
enqueue incoming events to that queue.
Unfortunately, during teardown, the internal ConnectionThread may
dispatch events right after the registry object has been destroyed,
which can lead to a crash.
In order to fix the crash, we need to destroy all proxy objects and only
after that we can destroy the event queue. It's okay if wayland events
are dispatched in between.
Currently, output properties are looked up either on the wl_output
object or the output device object. This puts a hard dependency on the
wayland server in the platforms.
This change intends to fix some flaws in the current output
abstractions, and allow creating/destroying wayland-specific globals as
we wish.
With the work done in this patch, the need for the AbstractWaylandOutput
class is unclear, and it might be a good idea to merge it with the base
AbstractOutput class.
Once in a while, we receive complaints from other fellow KDE developers
about the file organization of kwin. This change addresses some of those
complaints by moving all of source code in a separate directory, src/,
thus making the project structure more traditional. Things such as tests
are kept in their own toplevel directories.
This change may wreak havoc on merge requests that add new files to kwin,
but if a patch modifies an already existing file, git should be smart
enough to figure out that the file has been relocated.
We may potentially split the src/ directory further to make navigating
the source code easier, but hopefully this is good enough already.
