Summary:
Currently code base of kwin can be viewed as two pieces. One is very
ancient, and the other one is more modern, which uses new C++ features.
The main problem with the ancient code is that it was written before
C++11 era. So, no override or final keywords, lambdas, etc.
Quite recently, KDE compiler settings were changed to show a warning if
a virtual method has missing override keyword. As you might have already
guessed, this fired back at us because of that ancient code. We had
about 500 new compiler warnings.
A "solution" was proposed to that problem - disable -Wno-suggest-override
and the other similar warning for clang. It's hard to call a solution
because those warnings are disabled not only for the old code, but also
for new. This is not what we want!
The main argument for not actually fixing the problem was that git
history will be screwed as well because of human factor. While good git
history is a very important thing, we should not go crazy about it and
block every change that somehow alters git history. git blame allows to
specify starting revision for a reason.
The other argument (human factor) can be easily solved by using tools
such as clang-tidy. clang-tidy is a clang-based linter for C++. It can
be used for various things, e.g. fixing coding style(e.g. add missing
braces to if statements, readability-braces-around-statements check),
or in our case add missing override keywords.
Test Plan: Compiles.
Reviewers: #kwin, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, davidedmundson
Subscribers: davidedmundson, apol, romangg, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D22371
Scripts and scripted effects can provide a ui file which gets loaded at
runtime. Obviously such a ui file is not translated. This introduces
quite a hack to load the translated strings.
In the metadata.desktop file the scripted component can provide a key
X-KWin-Config-TranslationDomain. The genericscriptedconfig tries to
locate the metadata.desktop file and reads this entry. If it is present
we extract all string properties of the loaded UI and pass them through
ki18nd.
REVIEW: 118585
* Use metadata as json
* set Q_PLUGIN_METADATA and Q_INTERFACES
* port away from kde4_add_plugin
Only tested with effects, scripts might need further adjustements.
REVIEW: 116862
A scripted component providing:
* ui/config.ui
* config/main.xml
can get a config interface by using the following in metadata.desktop:
X-KDE-ServiceTypes=KWin/Effect,KCModule
X-KDE-PluginKeyword=`X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name`
X-KDE-Library=kcm_kwin4_genericscripted
X-KDE-ParentComponents=`X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name`
`X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name` has to be replaced by the actual value. In case
of a KWin Script the X-KDE-ServiceTypes needs to be:
X-KDE-ServiceTypes=KWin/Script,KCModule
The GenericScriptedConfig tries to identify the package from the keyword
and creates a Plasma::ConfigLoader and loads the UI from the packaged UI
file.
