At the moment, our frame scheduling infrastructure is still heavily
based on Xinerama-style rendering. Specifically, we assume that painting
is driven by a single timer, etc.
This change introduces a new type - RenderLoop. Its main purpose is to
drive compositing on a specific output, or in case of X11, on the
overlay window.
With RenderLoop, compositing is synchronized to vblank events. It
exposes the last and the next estimated presentation timestamp. The
expected presentation timestamp can be used by effects to ensure that
animations are synchronized with the upcoming vblank event.
On Wayland, every outputs has its own render loop. On X11, per screen
rendering is not possible, therefore the platform exposes the render
loop for the overlay window. Ideally, the Scene has to expose the
RenderLoop, but as the first step towards better compositing scheduling
it's good as is for the time being.
The RenderLoop tries to minimize the latency by delaying compositing as
close as possible to the next vblank event. One tricky thing about it is
that if compositing is too close to the next vblank event, animations
may become a little bit choppy. However, increasing the latency reduces
the choppiness.
Given that, there is no any "silver bullet" solution for the choppiness
issue, a new option has been added in the Compositing KCM to specify the
amount of latency. By default, it's "Medium," but if a user is not
satisfied with the upstream default, they can tweak it.
The main advantage of SPDX license identifiers over the traditional
license headers is that it's more difficult to overlook inappropriate
licenses for kwin, for example GPL 3. We also don't have to copy a
lot of boilerplate text.
In order to create this change, I ran licensedigger -r -c from the
toplevel source directory.
Summary:
We use internally Qt:ScreenOrientation for representing output transforms.
This is not ideal since the values do not map directly to Wayland transform
values, but we can make it work by using OR combinations of
Qt:ScreenOrientations.
Do this for now and see if we should not better introduce an internal enum
mapped directly.
Additionally the OR combinations need to be handled in the drm backend at
various places accordingly as well (see TODOs).
Test Plan: Compiles
Reviewers: #kwin
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Maniphest Tasks: T11670
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D25505
Summary:
This lifts the enablement code for outputs from the DRM backend to Platform
allowing other Wayland backends in the future to use this interface as well.
To do that we also create some helper functions on Platform level and have to
spill some KWayland classes into AbstractOutput what motivates a further split
of Platform into a Wayland child class like for AbstractOutput.
Test Plan: Disabled and enabled an output in DRM session.
Reviewers: #kwin
Subscribers: zzag, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D23545
Summary:
There are several issues with code of AbstractOutput class:
(a) Some methods are documented, and some are not. In general, we tend
to document all public methods in KWin core. It looks like a very
minor issue, but there are methods that have very ambiguous return
value. One such method is geometry(). It's not obvious whether the
returned geometry is in device independent pixels or not;
(b) There's a mix of methods defined in the cpp file and in the header.
This is not very good because reading such code becomes a bit harder
if you don't use any fancy IDE;
(c) Missing Q_DISABLE_COPY, etc.
This change addresses these issues, so the code is a bit more readable
and easier to work with.
Reviewers: #kwin, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, davidedmundson
Subscribers: broulik, cfeck, davidedmundson, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D21874
Summary:
The color correction manager doesn't make any specific assumptions about
underlying platform, e.g. whether it's x11, etc. The platform just
has to be capable of setting gamma ramps. Given that, there are no any
significant technical blockers for making this feature work on x.
Reviewers: #kwin, davidedmundson, romangg
Reviewed By: #kwin, davidedmundson, romangg
Subscribers: romangg, neobrain, GB_2, filipf, davidedmundson, ngraham, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D21345
Summary:
Represent outputs in the X11 session via AbstractOutput. For that we
move all Wayland specific parts of AbstractOutput into a new subclass
AbstractWaylandOutput and let the outputs of our Wayland backends inherit
from there.
This should allow us to get rid of the Screens class later on.
Test Plan: Manually in X session.
Reviewers: #kwin, zzag, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, zzag, davidedmundson
Subscribers: ngraham, zzag, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D19208
Summary:
initWaylandOutput can be called before or after all properites are set.
If it's called after, we need to still have xdgOuput set correctly.
Test Plan:
Simplified Aleix's patch that avoids a no-op setScale call
Now it works.
Reviewers: #kwin, apol
Reviewed By: apol
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D20800
Summary:
The current refresh rate is stored in OutputInterface. Move the getter
therefore in the AbstractOutput class.
Reviewers: #kwin, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, davidedmundson
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D16793
Summary:
Set the mode in AbstractOutput and call into the plugin
for final change on hardware.
Reviewers: #kwin, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, davidedmundson
Subscribers: davidedmundson, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Maniphest Tasks: T10016
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D16786
Summary:
Wayland output is on protocol level and not dependent on the hardware
platform. Next steps are to do the same for output device and then let
the virtual output call into these initializing functions as well.
Test Plan: Manually and auto test.
Reviewers: #kwin, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, davidedmundson
Subscribers: davidedmundson, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D16783
Summary:
In order to separate high-level properties of individual outputs from
hardware-specific ones and access these, introduce a new generic class Output.
Also make the DrmOutput class directly a child class of this generic class.
The long-term goal is to get rid of the Screens global object on Wayland and
instead directly work with Output objects on compositing level.
This should enable us long-term to do direct scanout to hardware planes, what
I predict needs this generic output representation at one point.
Test Plan: Manually.
Reviewers: #kwin
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D11781
