Summary:
The Dim Inactive effect was rewritten mostly to fix most of issues with
it, e.g. after leaving a full screen effect(e.g. Desktop Grid) windows
sometimes are not dimmed back, or when a window becomes inactive there
is no smooth transition, etc.
{F5956124}
//Before: the window is not smoothly dimmed.//
{F5956127}
//After: the window is smoothly dimmed.//
In combination with an effect that animates the disappearing of windows,
e.g. Glide, the rewritten Dim Inactive effect doesn't "flash" windows.
If an active window has been closed, it will stay bright. If an inactive
window has been closed, it will stay dimmed.
Among other changes, the KCM has been re-designed to follow common KCM
design in Plasma:
{F5956128, layout=center, size=full}
The way the rewritten Dim Inactive effect handles flashing/flickering problem can be
reused in the Dialog Parent effect.
### Demo
{F5959885}
//Before: dimming of a window group.//
{F5959886}
//After: Dimming of a window group.//
Depends on D13740
CCBUG: 359251
Test Plan:
Test plan #1
* Activated the Desktop Grid effect
* Dimmed windows smoothly brightened
* Left desktop grid
* Windows dimmed back
Test plan #2
* Opened Dolphin and its Preferences window
* Clicked on desktop, both Dolphin and the Preferences window dimmed
* Clicked on Dolphin, both windows smoothly brightened back
Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma, #vdg, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, #plasma, #vdg, davidedmundson
Subscribers: davidedmundson, abetts, ngraham, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D13720
This method replaces the X-KDE-ORDERING property in the Effect's desktop
files. This change is a preparation step for integrating the new Effect
Loader which doesn't read the ordering information. Thus it needs to be
provided by the Effect itself so that the EffectsHandler can properly
insert it into the chain.
Also for the built-in Effects on the long run it doesn't make much sense
to install the desktop files. And binary plugin effects will migrate to
json metadata which also doesn't have the KService::Ptr. Thus overall it
simplifies to read this information directly from the Effect.
The supportInformation is extended to also read the properties
on all effects. In addition each effect can be queried just for
itself through D-Bus, e.g.:
qdbus org.kde.kwin /KWin supportInformationForEffect kwin4_effect_blur
All effects are extended to provide their configured and read
settings through properties. In some cases also important
runtime information is exposed.
REVIEW: 105977
BUG: 305338
FIXED-IN: 4.9.1
The KWin::TimeLine class was only a small wrapper around QTimeLine
without adding anything to QTimeLine what is not present in QTimeLine.
The initial idea was to make it possible to provide more curve shapes.
This is now obsoleted by Qt shipping more useful curves with QTimeLine.
So let's clean up a little bit and use QTimeLine directly instead of
the small wrapper.
All effects are adjusted to use QTimeLine directly.
EffectsHandlerImpl connects to the Workspace signal clientActivated.
The emitting of the signal is slightly moved from before the activation logic
to after the activation logic. This might change behavior in the scripting
component, but the previous code looked wrong.
its own directory, cleaned up the effect config macros and renamed
"MakeTransparent" to "Translucency" so that it matches its visible name.
svn path=/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/; revision=921749
