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.
Occasionally, I see complaints about the file organization of kwin,
which is fair enough.
This change makes the source code more relocatable by removing relative
paths from includes.
CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR was added to the interface include directories
of kwin library. This means that as long as you link against kwin target,
the real location of the source code of the library doesn't matter.
With autotests, things are not as convenient as with kwin target. Some
tests use cpp files from kwin core. If we move all source code in a src/
directory, they will need to be adjusted, but mostly only in build
scripts.
This allows running Xwayland apps as root. Xwayland started with an
empty Xauthority file. After kwin has received the display number, the
file is updated with an actual authority entry.
BUG: 432625
As it was pointed out in 6acf35e4cc, it is
better to return raw pointers than qpointers because returning a qpointer
is equivalent to constructing a new one.
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.
At the moment, the Screens class is convoluted with ifdefs because of
MockScreens.
The goal of this change is to reduce the number of usages of the
MockScreens class so it is possible to get rid of the ifdefs.
Since the Screens class is a convenience wrapper around AbstractOutput
objects that come from the Platform, it should not be platform-specific.
By dropping createScreens(), output-related code becomes simpler.
This change introduces a new component - ColorManager that is
responsible for color management stuff.
At the moment, it's very naive. It is useful only for updating gamma
ramps. But in the future, it will be extended with more CMS-related
features.
The ColorManager depends on lcms2 library. This is an optional
dependency. If lcms2 is not installed, the color manager won't be built.
This also fixes the issue where colord and nightcolor overwrite each
other's gamma ramps. With this change, the ColorManager will resolve the
conflict between two.
There were multiple other cases of placing the mouse between screens at
the start of tests. It seems to be all copy paste.
Only maximise and pointerConstraints were failing before this, but we
may as well fix all of them.
Night Color adjusts the color temperature based on the current time in
your location. It's not a generic color correction module per se.
We need a central component that can be used by both night color and
colord integration to tweak gamma ramps and which will be able to
resolve conflicts between the two. The Night Color manager cannot be
such a thing because of its very specific usecase.
This change converts Night Color into a plugin to prepare some space for
such a component.
The tricky part is that the dbus api of Night Color has "ColorCorrect"
in its name. I'm afraid we cannot do that much about it without breaking
API compatibility.
A plugin may need to access kwinApp() or kwinApp()->platform() during
tear down, but the problem is that plugins are destroyed after the
kwinApp() object. The plugin manager must be destroyed explicitly while
the application is still valid to ensure that no crash will occur
during compositor teardown.
xdgshell allows clients to specify which output should we fill on
set_fullscreen. This change takes this request into consideration
instead of ignoring it.
The scripting api is not suitable for implementing all features that
should not be implemented in libkwin. For example, the krunner
integration or screencasting are the things that don't belong to be
compiled right into kwin and yet we don't have any other choice.
This change introduces a quick and dirty plugin infrastructure that
can be used to implement things such as colord integration, krunner
integration, etc.
Without the KWindowSystem integration plugin, Wayland experience will be
negatively affected because windows created by kwin itself won't behave
as desired. Therefore it makes little sense to load this plugin at runtime.
QTRY_COMPARE doesn't work well with how we do our wayland event
dispatching.
We know the client hasn't processed any events yet, so we can safely do
a normal wait.
On wayland, we know we're always going to load our internal QPA. Instead
of shipping a plugin and loading it dynamically we can use Qt static
plugins.
This should result in slightly faster load times, but also reduce the
number of moving pieces for kwin.
This also prevents anyone outside kwin loading our QPA which wouldn't
have made any sense and just crashed.
A window id generated by WaylandServer may reference an X11 window
with the same id, which can result in undefined behavior.
The main reason why we needed windowId() was because of the task
switcher. However, since tabbox uses internal ids now, the window id
property can be dropped.
SurfaceInterface::inputIsInfinite() has been dropped. If the surface has
no any input region specified, SurfaceInterface::input() will return a
region that corresponds to the rect of the surface (0, 0, width, height).
While the new design is more robust, for example it's no longer possible
to forget to check SurfaceInterface::inputIsInfinite(), it has shown some
issues in the input stack of kwin.
Currently, acceptsInput() will return false if you attempt to click the
server-side decoration for a surface whose input region is not empty.
Therefore, it's possible for an application to set an input region with
a width and a height of 1. If user doesn't know about KSysGuard or the
possibility of closing apps via the task manager, they won't be able to
close such an application.
Another issue is that if an application has specified an empty input
region on purpose, user will be still able click it. With the new
behavior of SurfaceInterface::input(), this is no longer an issue and it
is handled properly by kwin.
Currently, Qt clients send two maximize requests separated by the
initial commit. From spec's perspective, this is totally fine, the
client should receive two configure events with "maximized" state.
But because changeMaximize() in XdgToplevelClient and setMaximized()
operate on two different maximize modes, the second maximize request
will trick kwin into thinking that the client should be restored.
If Xwayland has crashed, the Workspace will block stacking order updates
and start destroying all X11 clients.
Once stacking order updates are unblocked, the Workspace will mark the X
stacking order as dirty and create a new Xcb::Tree object.
We don't want to create that Xcb::Tree object because accessing it
after the XCB connection has been shut down will lead to a crash.
BUG: 427688
FIXED-IN: 5.20.1
