Summary:
Rational: unredirect fullscreen windows is a weird beast. It's intended
to make fullscreen windows "faster" by not compositing that screen. But
that doesn't really work as KWin jumps out of that condition pretty
quickly. E.g. whenever a tooltip window is shown. KWin itself has a
better functionality by supporting to block compositing completely.
The complete code was full of hacks around it to try to ensure that
things don't break.
Overall unredirect fullscreen has always been the odd one. We had it
because a compositor needs to have it, but it never got truly integrated.
E.g. effects don't interact with it properly so that some things randomly
work, others don't. Will it trigger the screenedge, probably yes, but
will it show the highlight: properly no.
By removing the functionality we finally acknowledge that this mode is
not maintained and has not been maintained for years and that we do not
intend to support it better in future. Over the years we tried to make
it more and more hidden: it's disabled for Intel GPUs, because it used
to crash KWin. It's marked as an "expert" option, etc.
It's clearly something we tried to hide from the user that it exists.
For Wayland the whole unredirect infrastructure doesn't make sense
either. There is no such thing as "unredirecting". We might make use
of passing buffers directly to the underlying stack, but that will be
done automatically when we know it can be done, not by some magic is
this a window of specific size.
Test Plan:
Compiles, cannot really test as I am an Intel user who never
had that working.
Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma, #vdg
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D2180
A new config option "GLPlatformInterface" is added to the Compositing
settings group. Valid values are "glx" and "egl". This config option is
honored by the Scene to decide which backend to create.
The setting gets sanitized by the operation mode (egl for Wayland),
the environment variable KWIN_OPENGL_INTERFACE and the compile time
support. These switches are removed from the Scene to not have them
duplicated.
For the time being the current design of Options is more or less kept to
not have to adjust KWin code all over the place. Also for some parts the
generated class from KConfigXT cannot be used due to inter-settings
dependencies defined in the setters.
Options now holds a pointer to a Settings object which is generated from
KConfigXT and uses it to read the default values and the individual
settings. This means the static default value methods are dropped and the
variables are initialized with a normal default value (all int 0, all
boolean false and so on) in the initializer list. Afterwards the values
are set to the correct default value through KConfigXT.
So far for the first step only Windows category is using KConfigXT.
REVIEW: 108572
Apparently it's not allowed to have two groups with the same entry names.
Parameterized groups are still a "TODO" and a group must have a name.
Looks like we won't be able to use KConfigXT for TabBox.
types for a lot of entries and it proly misses a few hidden entries, if you know
those please add those (you can use kcfgcreator if you want to do it quickly)
svn path=/trunk/kdebase/kwin/; revision=311445
