The main difference is that the activation of an edge is no longer
broadcasted to all effects and scripts, but instead a passed in slot of
the Effect/Script is invoked.
For this the EffectsHandler API is changed to take the Effect as an
argument to (un)reserveElectricBorder. As callback slot the existing
borderActivated is used.
In addition the ScreenEdge monitors the object for beeing destroyed and
unregisters the the edge automatically. This removes the need from the
Effect to call unregister in the dtor.
BUG: 309695
FIXED-IN: 4.11
First XRender effect which gets ported over. Therefore required bits are
added to CMakeLists.txt.
Port to xcb is luckily rather straight forward. Though the QPixmap usage
needs to be replaced by xcb_pixmap_t together with a XRenderPicture.
In effects it's obvious that compositing is enabled, so specifying the
translucent element is no problem.
In tabbox a context property "compositing" is injected which decides
whether "translucent" or "opaque" elements should be used. Here the
translucent elements are only used if the Blur effect is available - for
this a new Effect::Feature Blur is introduced and in addition it is
tested whether the theme provides the translucent element.
Also the masking is adjusted to ensure that only the shadow is not
blurred.
Reason for this change is that Plasma theme seems not always to pick up
whether compositing is used when used from inside KWin. It does not cover
the Desktop Change OSD which uses PlasmaCore.Dialog and there we cannot
(yet) inject that we use compositing.
Overall I'm quite unhappy with this patch and I do hope we can fix it in
the proper place in the lifetime of 4.10 and revert this patch.
CCBUG: 311995
REVIEW: 108438
This property can be used to check whether a window is currently visible
to the user, that is:
* not minimized
* on the current desktop
* on current activity
This is a common need for various effects.
REVIEW: 108341
Effect used the display size which caused windows being larger than
either width or height not to be captured correctly.
Now it uses the window size for the offscreen texture which also requires
to adjust the modelviewprojection matrix.
As an unrelated change the pointer to GLRenderTarget and GLTexture are
changed to a QScopedPointer and some variables which got moved around
are consted.
BUG: 312851
FIXED-IN: 4.11
REVIEW: 108258
Following the approach of ShowPaint effect by tracking the actual painted
regions per window to determine whether the painted area intersects with
one of the thumbnails.
BUG: 306169
FIXED-IN: 4.10
REVIEW: 108289
Animation now completely based on the expandedGeometry which includes the
shadows and another repaint at the end of the animation is added to
ensure that there are no leftover shadows.
BUG: 312168
FIXED-IN: 4.10
REVIEW: 108255
Instead of each effect, which needs to announce support, having custom
code to create a property and set it on the root window, there is now a
common API in EffectsHandler to take care of this.
The methods takes care of creating the atom if it has not already done
and set the property on the root window. Furthermore it allows multiple
effects to announce the same property without getting in conflict with
each other.
As a further convenience the property is automatically removed when the
effect is unloaded, so less things an effect author has to care about.
REVIEW: 107815
The ownership for virtual desktops is moved from Workspace into a new
VirtualDesktopManager. The manager is responsible for providing the count
of virtual desktops and keeping track of the currently used virtual
desktop.
All methods related to moving between desktops are also moved from
Workspace to the new manager, though all methods related to Clients on
Virtual Desktops remain in Workspace for the time being. This is to have
the new manager as independent from KWin core as possible.
An rather important change for the handling of virtual desktops is that
the count and the id of a desktop is now an unsinged integer instead of
an integer. The reason for that is that we cannot have a negative count
of desktops as well as it is not possible to be on a desktop with a
negative identifier.
In that regard it is important to remember that a Client can be on a
desktop with a negative identifier. The special value for a Client being
on all desktops is handled by using -1 as a desktop. For the time being
this is not adjusted but instead of comparing the virtual desktop ids one
should prefer to use the convenient methods like isOnDesktop and
isOnAllDesktops. This would allow in future to internally change the
representation for on all desktops.
