The indirection contributes unnecessary complexity. The usage of
std::weak_ptr and std::shared_ptr complicates the things further, e.g.

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Ideally, same should be done with TabBox and TabBoxHandler, but that can be done in another MR.
Tabbox supports two operation modes: switching between windows and
desktops. Switching between windows is more commonly used. Desktop
switching is not exposed in user settings and it requires some advanced
knowledge of kwin's internals to enable it.
On the other hand, over the past years, we've double downed on effects
like desktop grid and overview to provide graphical means to switch
between virtual desktops.
This change drops desktop switching because it's effectively unused to
simplify the tabbox code, which can be very handy for the future
refactorings of window switching.
We use KWIN_NAME, KWIN_INTERNAL_NAME_X11 and KWIN_INTERNAL_WAYLAND
properly only in a few places. In other, we use hardcoded names.
Let's not bother and hardcode kwin names everywhere rather than have one
foot in and one foot out, it's simpler.
The desktopClient is a weak pointer and therefore can be null. This
makes sure that we are not calling a null instance of it.
It seems likely it was introduced here 45486ce515
This is a blind non-reproduced fix for the issue here:
https://errors-eval.kde.org/organizations/kde/issues/158/
When we have 0 opened apps, tab box only shows "Show Desktop". That element is a
special entry in the alt+tab list for minimizing all windows. When highlighting
it, panels temporarily become hidden, which does not make sense to do when it is
the only item in the tab box. In this case, do not temporarily hide the panels.
We need to reset the QML Item on failure or trying to load a
different switcher afterwards will pick a wrong codepath and
also fail.
BUG: 445455
FIXED-IN: 5.25.4
The .clang-format file is based on the one in ECM except the following
style options:
- AlwaysBreakBeforeMultilineStrings
- BinPackArguments
- BinPackParameters
- ColumnLimit
- BreakBeforeBraces
- KeepEmptyLinesAtTheStartOfBlocks
Not sure if this was left out on purpose as a kind of deprecation.
It would be necessary to allow port the tabbox switchers to the newer 3.0 API and use their components (such as `Workspace`)
Probably for `Plasma/5.25` now.
Currently, thumbnail items are rendered by kwin. This means that qtquick
code cannot do things such as applying shader effects to window thumbnails
or simply draw custom controls on top of thumbnails.
With this change, task switchers and qml extensions will be able to
place their own contents on top of thumbnails and apply custom effects
to them.
In order to integrate window thumbnails, a window is rendered on kwin
side using its own opengl context. A fence is inserted in the command
stream to ensure that the qtquick machinery doesn't start using the
offscreen texture while there are still rendering commands being executed.
Thumbnails are rendered into offscreen textures as we don't have full
control over when qtquick windows render their contents and to work around
the fact that things such as VAOs can't be shared across OpenGL contexts.
WindowThumbnailItem and DesktopThumbnailItem act as texture providers.
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.