According to the spec, if the wl_subsurface.place_below request is
called with the parent surface, the sub-surface must be placed below the
parent surface.
BUG: 438808
Originally, only x, y, width, and height property setters were used. A
bit later "position" and "size" helper setters were added to simplify
code in SurfaceItem sub-classes. It seems like setX(), setY(), setWidth(),
and setHeight() are unused now, so remove them.
The scene items depend on the scene windows for caching window quads.
The goal of this change is to move window quads management to item.
Merging window quads in one list and then splitting them is inefficient,
it will be highly desirable if window quads are removed from the public
api so we can optimize window quad management.
With this change, the window quad type becomes irrelevant to render
backends for the most part. Note that the Xrender backend is a bit
nitpicky about window quads, so the shadow item doesn't create generic
"WindowQuadShadow" quads anymore.
One can think that Item::scheduleRepaint() will trigger repaint of the
whole item, but it actually only schedules the next frame. If nothing
has changed on the screen, no real painting will be done unless maybe if
the rendering backend needs to repair the back buffer.
Currently, items depend on scene windows for creating pixmaps, repaint
scheduling, and caching quads.
This change moves repaint scheduling from scene windows to items to
make the scene items depend less on scene windows.
In hindsight, we may clean up the repaint scheduling machinery further
by introducing view objects.
Currently, dealing with sub-surfaces is very difficult due to the scene
design being heavily influenced by X11 requirements.
The goal of this change is to re-work scene abstractions to make improving
the wayland support easier.
The Item class is based on the QQuickItem class. My hope is that one day
we will be able to transition to QtQuick for painting scene, but in
meanwhile it makes more sense to have a minimalistic internal item class.
The WindowItem class represents a window. The SurfaceItem class represents
the contents of either an X11, or a Wayland, or an internal surface. The
DecorationItem and the ShadowItem class represent the server-side deco and
drop-shadow, respectively.
At the moment, the SurfaceItem is bound to the scene window, but the long
term plan is to break that connection so we could re-use the SurfaceItem
for things such as software cursors and drag-and-drop additional icons.
One of the responsibilities of the Item is to schedule repaints as needed.
Ideally, there shouldn't be any addRepaint() calls in the core code. The
Item class schedules repaints on geometry updates. In the future, it also
has to request an update if its opacity or visibility changes.
