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:
Get the pixel size directly from the always available output device
interface instead of saving an additional copy in the backends.
Test Plan: Nested Wayland, Drm, virtual backends tested.
Reviewers: #kwin, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, davidedmundson
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Maniphest Tasks: T11459
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D23495
Summary:
Create output devices in virtual backend. For that the setVirtualOutputs call
can only come after the Wayland server has been initiliazied such that the
display exists to create the output and output device interfaces. Tests have
been adjusted for that.
Test Plan:
```
98% tests passed, 3 tests failed out of 148
Total Test time (real) = 362.97 sec
The following tests FAILED:
33 - kwin-testInternalWindow (Failed)
39 - kwin-testPointerInput (Failed)
101 - kwin-testMoveResize (Failed)
```
Failing of these tests looks unrelated to the change.
Reviewers: #kwin
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Maniphest Tasks: T11459
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D23477
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
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:
With the new Output class we can set the gamma directly here. This is also
a stepping stone to adjust individual output gamma adjustment later on.
This means any future backend, which aims to support the color correction
frontend needs to use the Output class.
Test Plan: Night Color test still passes.
Reviewers: #kwin
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D11803
Summary:
Let VirtualOutput be a child class of the new generic class Output.
This allows code sharing and a very similar behavior of the Virtual backend
in comparision to the Drm backend.
Test Plan:
Autotests succesful with two exceptions: The decoration input test fails on
testDoubleTap, row topLeft. This is to be expected because now the
ScreenEdgeInputFilter captures the event at position (0,0) before the
DecorationEventFilter can capture it. The autotest was adapted to take this
special case into account.
Also the lockscreen test fails, because the virtual output is currently missing
the physical size yet.
Reviewers: #kwin
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D11789
Summary:
Qt objects are treated as identities so remove the copy constructor and
an assignment operator. See, http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/object.html#identity-vs-value
IIRC some Qt objects(like QImage) have copy constructor for implicit data sharing,
but VirtualOutput doesn't have anything to share.
Also, it [this patch] fixes a compiler warning:
```
/home/vlad/KDE/src/kde/workspace/kwin/plugins/platforms/virtual/virtual_output.cpp: In copy constructor ‘KWin::VirtualOutput::VirtualOutput(const KWin::VirtualOutput&)’:
/home/vlad/KDE/src/kde/workspace/kwin/plugins/platforms/virtual/virtual_output.cpp:30:1: warning: base class ‘class QObject’ should be explicitly initialized in the copy constructor [-Wextra]
VirtualOutput::VirtualOutput(const VirtualOutput &o)
^~~~~~~~~~~~~
```
Reviewers: #kwin, romangg
Reviewed By: #kwin, romangg
Subscribers: michaelh, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D12214
Summary:
This matches the DRM backend more closely and allows mid-test removal and
addition of virtual outputs with different properties in the future.
Test Plan: Before and after 93% tests passed.
Reviewers: #kwin, graesslin
Reviewed By: #kwin, graesslin
Subscribers: graesslin, kwin, #kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D11351
