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.
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:
KDE is known for having a strong view on the client-side decorations vs
server-side decorations issue. The main argument raised against CSD is
that desktop will look less consistent when clients start drawing window
decorations by themselves, which is somewhat true. It all ties to how
well each toolkit is integrated with the desktop environment.
KDE doesn't control the desktop market on Linux. Another big "player"
is GNOME. Both KDE and GNOME have very polarized views on in which
direction desktop should move forward. The KDE community is pushing more
toward server-side decorations while the GNOME community is pushing
more toward client-side decorations. Both communities have developed
great applications and it's not rare to see a GNOME application being
used in KDE Plasma. The only problem is that these different views are
not left behind the curtain and our users pay the price. Resizing GTK
clients in Plasma became practically impossible due to resize borders
having small hit area.
When a client draws its window decoration, it's more likely that it also
draws the drop-shadow around the decoration. The compositor must know
the extents of the shadow so things like snapping and so on work as
expected. And here lies the problem... While the xdg-shell protocol has
a way to specify such things, the NetWM spec doesn't have anything like
that. There's _GTK_FRAME_EXTENTS in the wild, however the problem with
it is that it's a proprietary atom, which is specific only to GTK apps.
Due to that, _GTK_FRAME_EXTENTS wasn't implemented because implementing
anything like that would require major changes in how we think about
geometry.
Recent xdg-shell window geometry patches adjusted geometry abstractions
in kwin to such a degree that it's very easy to add support for client
side decorated clients on X11. We just have to make sure that the
X11Client class provides correct buffer geometry and frame geometry when
the gtk frame extents are set.
Even though the X11 code is feature frozen, I still think it's worth
to have _GTK_FRAME_EXTENTS support in kwin because it will fix the resize
issues. Also, because KWin/Wayland is unfortunately far from becoming
default, it will help us with testing some implementation bits of the
window geometry from xdg-shell.
BUG: 390550
FIXED-IN: 5.18.0
Test Plan:
Things like quick tiling, maximizing, tiling scripts and so on work as
expected with GTK clients.
Reviewers: #kwin, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, davidedmundson
Subscribers: cblack, trmdi, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D24660
Summary:
This has been commented out since 2014, I doubt it will come back.
This is a big amount of code, maintenance will be easier without it.
Reviewers: #kwin, zzag
Reviewed By: #kwin, zzag
Subscribers: romangg, graesslin, kwin
Tags: #kwin, #documentation
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D23069
Summary:
On X several target atoms are established to provide data similar to the
text/uri-list target format (the respective MIME on Wayland is called
text/x-uri).
Firefox can send link data in the NETSCAPE_URL format ones. Chromium on the
other side sends link data in the text/x-moz-url format, which transports
UTF-16 text.
For both these peculiarities this patch provides converter functions, that
translate these formats into the Wayland native text/x-uri format. In the
other direction no translation is necessary. Both browsers supports the
text/uri-list format when receiving link lists.
Test Plan: Manually with Firefox and Chromium.
Reviewers: #kwin
Subscribers: zzag, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D15629
Summary:
Building upon the generic X Selection support this patch establishes another
selection class representing the XDND selection and provides interfaces
to communicate drags originating from Xwayland windows to the Wayland
server KWin and drags originating from Wayland native drags to Xwayland.
For Wayland native drags KWin will claim the XDND selection as owner and
will simply translate all relevant events to the XDND protocol and receive
alike messages by X clients.
When an X client claims the XDND selection KWin is notified via the X protocol
and it decides if it allows the X drag to transcend into the Wayland protocol.
If this is the case the mouse position is tracked and on entering a Wayland
native window a proxy X Window is mapped to the top of the window stack. This
proxy window acts as a drag destination for the drag origin window and again
X messages will be translated into respective Wayland protocol calls. If the
cursor leaves the Wayland window geometry before a drop is registered, the
proxy window is unmapped, what triggers a subsequent drag leave event.
In both directions the necessary core integration is minimal. There is a single
call to be done in the drag and drop event filter through the Xwayland
interface class.
From my tests this patch facilitates drags between any Qt/KDE apps. What needs
extra care are the browsers, which use target formats, that are not directly
compatible with the Wayland protocol's MIME representation. For Chromium an
additional integration step must be done in order to provide it with a net
window stack containing the proxy window.
Test Plan: Manually. Auto tests planned.
Reviewers: #kwin
Subscribers: zzag, kwin, alexde
Tags: #kwin
Maniphest Tasks: T4611
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D15627
Summary:
In this patch an infrastructure is created to represent generic X selections
in a Wayland session and use them for data transfers between Xwayland windows
and Wayland native clients.
The central manager is the DataBridge class, in which Selection objects can be
created. This is hard-coded and such a Selection object persists until the end
of the session, so no arbitrary selections can be created on the fly. For now
the X Clipboard selection is supported, whose corresponding mechanism in the
Wayland protocol is just called Selection.
A Selection object listens for selection owner changes on the X side and for
similar events into the Wayland server interfaces. If a data provider is
available a selection source object is created by the Selection object. In case
data is requested on the other side, a data transfer is initialized by creating
a Transfer object. A Selection keeps track of all transfers and makes sure that
they are destroyed when they are finished or in case they idle because of
misbehaving clients.
The Clipboard class translates the X Clipboard via a proxy window. Selection
changes on the Wayland side are listened to through a new signal on the active
KWayland seat interface.
The previously used X clipboard syncer helper is disabled. The clipboard sync
autotest is changed to the new mechanism.
BUG: 394765
BUG: 395313
Test Plan: Manually and clipboard sync autotest.
Reviewers: #kwin
Subscribers: zzag, graesslin, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D15061
This brings back global menu support in KWin.
The DBusMenu infrastructure is different that we just read the DBus service name and
menu object path from the windows rather than passing around window IDs on DBus which
won't work on Wayland.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D3089
When XWayland associates a Wayland surface with an X window it
sends a WL_SURFACE_ID client message to the window manager.
KWin listens for this client message in Toplevel and provides it
as a member in Toplevel.
This requires KWin to actually start a Wayland server (and XWayland)
to make proper use of the information.
KWin sets a _ORG_KDE_KWIN_DBUS_SERVICE property on the root window
with the name of the DBus service it registered. The type of the
property is UTF8_STRING.
REVIEW: 122215
This is going to be a controversal change. It enforces KWin decorations
on all client side decorated windows from GTK+. Unfortunately we are
caught between a rock and a hard place. Keeping the status quo means
having broken windows and a more or less broken window manager due to
GTK+ including the shadow in the windows. This is no solution.
Enforcing server side decorations visually breaks the windows. This is
also no solution. So why do it?
It's our task to provide the best possible user experience and KWin is
a window manager which has always done great efforts to fix misbehaving
windows. One can think of the focus stealing prevention, the window rules
and lately the scripts. The best possible window management experience is
our aim. This means we cannot leave the users with the broken windows
from GTK.
The issues we noticed were reported to GTK+ about 2 months ago and we are
working on improving the situation. Unfortunately several issues are not
yet addressed and others will only be addressed in the next GTK+ release.
We are working on improving the NETWM spec (see [1]) to ensure that the
client side decorated windows are not in a broken state. This means the
enforcment is a temporary solution and will be re-evaluated with the next
GTK release. I would prefer to not have to do such a change, if some of
the bugs were fixed or GTK+ would not use client-side-decos on wms not
yet supporting those all of this would be a no issue.
For a complete list of the problems caused by GTK's decos see bug [2] and
the linked bug reports from there.
The change is done in a least inversive way in KWin. We just check for
the property _GTK_FRAME_EXTENTS and create a Q_PROPERTY in Client for it.
If we add support for the frame extents in future we would also need
this. So it's not a change just for enforcing the decoration.
The actual enforcing is done through a KWin script so users can still
disable it.
REVIEW: 119062
[1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2014-June/msg00002.html
[2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729721
Adds NET::WM2BlockCompositing to the Client's properties which allows to
read the state from the NETWinInfo object and get updates without having
to resolve the atom ourselve.
REVIEW: 117561
This provides a new protocol intended to be used by auto-hiding panels
to make use of the centralized screen edges. To use it a Client can
set an X11 property of type _KDE_NET_WM_SCREEN_EDGE_SHOW to KWin.
As value it takes:
* 0: top edge
* 1: right edge
* 2: bottom edge
* 3: left edge
KWin will hide the Client (hide because unmap or minimize would break
it) and create an Edge. If that Edge gets triggered the Client is shown
again and the property gets deleted. If the Client doesn't border the
specified screen edge the Client gets shown immediately so that we
never end in a situation that we cannot unhide the auto-hidden panel
again. The exact process is described in the documentation of
ScreenEdges. The Client can request to be shown again by deleting the
property.
If KWin gets restarted the state is read from the property and it is
tried to create the edge as described.
As this is a KWin specific extension we need to discuss what it means
for Clients using this feature with other WMs: it does nothing. As
the Client gets hidden by KWin and not by the Client, it just doesn't
get hidden if the WM doesn't provide the feature. In case of an
auto-hiding panel this seems like a good solution given that we don't
want to hide it if we cannot unhide it. Of course there's the option
for the Client to provide that feature itself and if that's wanted we
would need to announce the feature in the _NET_SUPPORTED atom. At the
moment that doesn't sound like being needed as Plasma doesn't want to
provide an own implementation.
The implementation comes with a small test application showing how
the feature is intended to be used.
REVIEW: 115910
By setting the X property _KDE_NET_WM_SKIP_CLOSE_ANIMATION to 1 a window
can request to be excluded from any close animation. This property is
read in Toplevel, so that it is available to both Client and Unmanaged.
If the window has this property set the Scene suppresses the paintWindow
loop of the Deleted. Thus no effect needs to be adjusted. But an effect
using drawWindow directly would still be able to render the Deleted as
there is no suppression.
Furthermore the property is passed to the EffectWindow so that an
Effect can make use of this functionality and not start the animation
in the first place.
REVIEW: 115288
The X property _KDE_NET_WM_COLOR_SCHEME can be set on a window and
specifies the absolute path to a .color file describing the color
scheme of the managed client.
The Client reads this property and creates a QPalette from it. If
the property is not set or the value is incorrect, the Client uses
KWin's default palette.
The idea behind this property is to allow an application with a
custom color scheme to tell KWin which color scheme the window
decoration should use. So that the window looks as a solid pattern
again.
During startup we only create the request, the reply will be fetched
once the atom is needed.
To make proper use of this async behavior the creation of Atoms is
moved directly to the claim of the manager selection, so they can be
fetched while we wait for the previous manager selection to give up
on it.
This patch implements an XProperty named _KDE_NET_WM_OPAQUE_REGION
which gives the compositor the information which part of a window
is opaque although it is an ARGB visual. The basic ideas are from
http://www.mail-archive.com/wm-spec-list@gnome.org/msg00715.html
Additionally the patch makes kwin use this information to do a better
clipping in Scene::paintSimpleScreen which should result in a higher
performance.
REVIEW: 102933
For a complete documentation of new functionality refer to:
http://community.kde.org/KWin/Shadow
The current implementation includes a new Shadow class and Toplevel
holds a pointer to an instance of this class. The Shadow class reads
the data from the X11 Property. There is one extended class located
in SceneOpenGL to render the shadow.
Compositor is adjusted to include the shadow region into the painting
passes.
Implementation for XRender still missing and Shadow needs to respond
to size changes of the Toplevel to update cached shadow region and
WindowQuads.
the new property name is "_KDE_NET_WM_ACTIVITIES", of type XA_STRING,
and it's a comma-separated list of activity UUIDs.
kwin should respond to other processes changing the activity list for a
window, and filter out any bogus IDs. It also caches KActivityController's
list of activities to prevent dbus deadlocks.
CCMAIL: plasma-devel@kde.org
svn path=/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/; revision=1179043
being v2+ (right now it says just GPL, which according to GPL itself
means any GPL). Decoration clients will come later.
CCMAIL: kwin@kde.org
svn path=/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/; revision=742302
svn+ssh://coolo@svn.kde.org/home/kde/branches/work/kde4/kdebase
.
I couldn't resolve one kicker conflict that results from different
development directions, so I rely on Aaron to sort it out - the file
is commited with conflicts
svn path=/trunk/KDE/kdebase/kwin/; revision=439627