Effects are given the interval between two consecutive frames. The main
flaw of this approach is that if the Compositor transitions from the idle
state to "active" state, i.e. when there is something to repaint,
effects may see a very large interval between the last painted frame and
the current. In order to address this issue, the Scene invalidates the
timer that is used to measure time between consecutive frames before the
Compositor is about to become idle.
While this works perfectly fine with Xinerama-style rendering, with per
screen rendering, determining whether the compositor is about to idle is
rather a tedious task mostly because a single output can't be used for
the test.
Furthermore, since the Compositor schedules pointless repaints just to
ensure that it's idle, it might take several attempts to figure out
whether the scene timer must be invalidated if you use (true) per screen
rendering.
Ideally, all effects should use a timeline helper that is aware of the
underlying render loop and its timings. However, this option is off the
table because it will involve a lot of work to implement it.
Alternative and much simpler option is to pass the expected presentation
time to effects rather than time between consecutive frames. This means
that effects are responsible for determining how much animation timelines
have to be advanced. Typically, an effect would have to store the
presentation timestamp provided in either prePaint{Screen,Window} and
use it in the subsequent prePaint{Screen,Window} call to estimate the
amount of time passed between the next and the last frames.
Unfortunately, this is an API incompatible change. However, it shouldn't
take a lot of work to port third-party binary effects, which don't use the
AnimationEffect class, to the new API. On the bright side, we no longer
need to be concerned about the Compositor getting idle.
We do still try to determine whether the Compositor is about to idle,
primarily, because the OpenGL render backend swaps buffers on present,
but that will change with the ongoing compositing timing rework.
The results of the blur and the background contrast effect will never
be seen if the screen locker is active.
In order to avoid wasting computational resources, we could temporarily
disable the blur effect until the screen is unlocked.
Furthermore, given that the blur effect shrinks the clip region, it is
guaranteed that the compositor will have to render the desktop window
behind the lockscreen window. With this change, all windows behind the
screen locker will be properly clipped away.
The original purpose of m_damageArea was to indicate which region of the
blur cache became dirty and needs to be updated. However, we no longer
need to keep track of damaged area since the blur cache was removed.
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:
Won't make things go much faster since everything that was
being passed by value is refcounted but still const & is a bit faster
than refcounting
For shared pointers instead of adding const & we move them into the
destination variable saving some cpu usage but at the same time making
clear the pointer is being stored by not being const &
Reviewers: zzag
Reviewed By: zzag
Subscribers: zzag, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D25022
Summary:
QRegion::rects was deprecated in Qt 5.11. It is advised to use begin()
and end() methods instead.
Reviewers: #kwin, romangg
Reviewed By: #kwin, romangg
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D22353
Disable sRGB rendering when the color encoding of the default
framebuffer is linear.
BUG: 408594
FIXED-IN: 5.16.3
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D22153
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Höglund <fredrik@kde.org>
Summary:
The streaming buffer is shared so we have to reset it before rendering
something. Otherwise, it's basically undefined behavior.
For example, if the streaming buffer had been used for rendering a
geometry with some color, then the Background Contrast effect may crash
in GLVertexBuffer::bindArrays, it all depends on whether there is any
bounded GLShader. To fix that, the buffer has to be reset.
BUG: 356141
Reviewers: #kwin, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, davidedmundson
Subscribers: davidedmundson, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D19034
Summary:
This gets rid of the dark area that may appear between very different colors by doing the blur in SRGB colorspace.
This is not enabled for GLES, and will use the previous blur type.
Test Plan:
Before:
{F6577457}
After:
{F6577458}
Reviewers: #vdg, #kwin, davidedmundson, zzag, fredrik, ngraham
Reviewed By: #vdg, fredrik, ngraham
Subscribers: Codezela, fredrik, abetts, Petross404, rapiteanu, filipf, rooty, ngraham, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D18377
Summary:
KWindowSystem provides a plugin interface to have platform specific
implementations. So far KWin relied on the implementation in
KWayland-integration repository.
This is something I find unsuited, for the following reasons:
* any test in KWin for functionality set through the plugin would fail
* it's not clear what's going on where
* in worst case some code could deadlock
* KWin shouldn't use KWindowSystem and only a small subset is allowed
to be used
The last point needs some further explanation. KWin internally does not
and cannot use KWindowSystem. KWindowSystem (especially KWindowInfo) is
exposing information which KWin sets. It's more than weird if KWin asks
KWindowSystem for the state of a window it set itself. On X11 it's just
slow, on Wayland it can result in roundtrips to KWin itself which is
dangerous.
But due to using Plasma components we have a few areas where we use
KWindowSystem. E.g. a Plasma::Dialog sets a window type, the slide in
direction, blur and background contrast. This we want to support and
need to support. Other API elements we do not want, like for examples
the available windows. KWin internal windows either have direct access
to KWin or a scripting interface exposed providing (limited) access -
there is just no need to have this in KWindowSystem.
To make it more clear what KWin supports as API of KWindowSystem for
internal windows this change implements a stripped down version of the
kwayland-integration plugin. The main difference is that it does not use
KWayland at all, but a QWindow internal side channel.
To support this EffectWindow provides an accessor for internalWindow and
the three already mentioned effects are adjusted to read from the
internal QWindow and it's dynamic properties.
This change is a first step for a further refactoring. I plan to split
the internal window out of ShellClient into a dedicated class. I think
there are nowadays too many special cases. If it moves out there is the
question whether we really want to use Wayland for the internal windows
or whether this is just historic ballast (after all we used to use
qwayland for that in the beginning).
As the change could introduce regressions I'm targetting 5.16.
Test Plan:
new test case for window type, manual testing using Alt+Tab
for the effects integration. Sliding popups, blur and contrast worked fine.
Reviewers: #kwin
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D18228
Summary:
The new connect syntax has several advantages over the old syntax:
(a) Connecting with the new syntax is faster;
(b) It is compile time checked.
There are still a few places where the old connect syntax is used, e.g.
connecting to QML buttons in the Desktop Grid effect.
Test Plan:
Have been testing this patch for ~2 weeks, haven't noticed any
regressions.
Reviewers: #kwin, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, davidedmundson
Subscribers: davidedmundson, broulik, graesslin, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D18368
Summary:
* effects.h includes client.h and forward declares Client, both at the
same time. Thus, delete the include;
* the blur effect includes effects.h. That, most likely, is a leftover
after 3f5bf65a9e.
Test Plan: Compiles.
Reviewers: #kwin, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, davidedmundson
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D15191
Summary:
* Drop abstract BlurShader class
* Delete evil "using namespace KWin"
* Fix includes
* Use smart pointers
* Turn BlurShader into a QObject
* Fix coding style
* Add missing default cases
* Use default member initialization
* Delete methods that are used only once
* Use more const
* Use QRect::{top,right,bottom,left} methods in the setBlurRect method
Reviewers: #kwin, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, davidedmundson
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D13110
Summary:
In D12678 blur was changed to use `blitFromFramebuffer()` instead of `glCopyTexSubImage2D()`
Now it checks if the GPU supports it.
Reviewers: #kwin, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, davidedmundson
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D13246
Summary:
Blur should now work on Wayland when scaling is used.
This does not affect X11 as `GLRenderTarget::virtualScreenScale()` is always 1 on X11
BUG: 391387
Depends on D12678
Test Plan:
- log in in a Wayland session
- turn display scaling to 2x
- open a transparent window (for example: Konsole with transparent and blur enabled profile)
- blurs the content under the window corretly
Reviewers: davidedmundson, #kwin
Reviewed By: davidedmundson, #kwin
Subscribers: romangg, apol, zzag, kwin, #kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D12700
Summary:
When disconnecting from `blurChanged` signal, `(w, connection)` pair is
being looked up three times. We can do better by using `QMap` in a more
STL-like way.
Reviewers: #kwin, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, davidedmundson
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D13118
Summary:
On wayland blur on secondary monitor would not render correctly.
BUG: 393723
Depends on D12452
Test Plan:
- use more than one output
- log in in a wayland session
- open a transparent window (for example: Konsole with transparent and blur enabled profile)
- drag the window to another screen
- blurs the content under the window corretly
Reviewers: #kwin, graesslin, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, davidedmundson
Subscribers: apol, zzag, davidedmundson, kwin, #kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D12678
Summary:
`QGuiApplication::primaryScreen()->logicalDotsPerInch()` sometimes reports incorrect scale value, for example 95.951 (or even lower) instead of 96.0 at 1x scale and this caused to simply darken blurred areas instead of noising them.
This patch sets a minimum 1x scale for the noise texture, because realistically we will never be below that.
Reviewers: davidedmundson
Reviewed By: davidedmundson
Subscribers: davidedmundson, kwin, #kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D12519
Summary:
Added the option to turn on noise behind the blurred area.
The lowest strength value disables it completely, so it is optional and is disabled by default.
Test Plan:
Edit: this new screenshot shows the updated noise generation.
Edit2: separated the screenshots so you can flick through them to clearly see the differences
{F5694024}
{F5694031}
{F5694025}
{F5694028}
Reviewers: #kwin, #vdg, fredrik
Reviewed By: #vdg, fredrik
Subscribers: davidedmundson, matheusm, romangg, ivan, zzag, ngraham, kwin, #kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D10281
Summary:
Since the new blur is more efficient "fastblur" or "simpleblur" is not needed anymore for fullscreen blur.
Even my old low-end laptop from 2009 (with Intel T3300) can easily do fullscreen blur now with the new method without any hitch at all.
Reviewers: graesslin, #kwin, #plasma, #vdg, fredrik
Reviewed By: #vdg, fredrik
Subscribers: avaragic, fredrik, ngraham, plasma-devel, kwin, #kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D10181
Summary: In D9848 the file permissions in effects/blur where accidentally changed from 644 to 755.
Test Plan: {F5674656}
Reviewers: #kwin, hein
Reviewed By: hein
Subscribers: kwin, #kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D10100
Summary:
Updated the old and outdated blur method to use the much more efficient dual kawase blur method.
Now with this we can do virtually infinite blur with very very little performance cost.
The dual kawase blur method is basically downscaling and upscaling an image, but combined with the kawase blur shader.
Comparison: https://i.imgur.com/mh6Cw61.png
Left is old, right is new.
Comparison was done with the strongest blur setting in a VM running on an Intel i7-4790 and a GTX980
We can see here that the performance is even better with this new method.
Reviewers: #plasma, #kwin, graesslin, fredrik
Reviewed By: fredrik
Subscribers: hein, dos, luebking, broulik, romangg, zzag, anthonyfieroni, mart, davidedmundson, fredrik, ngraham, plasma-devel, kwin, #kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D9848
Summary:
It is known to create problems especially on multi-screen and is not as
important on Wayland as it used to be on X11 thanks to things like
buffer age and in general better rendering.
Test Plan: Opened the config module and verified that the option is
hidden
Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma
Subscribers: plasma-devel, kwin
Tags: #plasma
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D9879
Especially the BlurEffect::expanded() method is called a lot.
Saves creating a temporary QVector.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D9101
Summary:
Instead of calling reconfigure() on screen size changes, which deletes
and recreates the effect, we can just update the one texture that's mapped to
the screen size.
---
From the wayland commit.
>What surprises me is that BlurManager recreates for Output changes.
>That sounds like a bug in KWin (or an area which could be improved).
I had thought the same and wrote this (though wanted to have kwayland fixed first)
Test Plan:
Logged in and out (my screen resizes on startup due to scaling)
Tested on my X machine by turning a screen off. Nothing broke, plasma
panels looked the same.
Note: Eike tried this patch last week and claimed kwin still crashed.
We don't have a backtrace so it could have been something unrelated,
applied wrong or that he was deliberately lying to wind me up.
Reviewers: #plasma, graesslin
Reviewed By: #plasma, graesslin
Subscribers: graesslin, plasma-devel, kwin, #kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D7877
Summary:
Several effects announce a support property atom on the root window. This
change forwards the KWin::Application's signal that the xcbConnection
changed to the EffectsHandler so that the effects can respond to it.
All effects which announce a support property connect to this new signal
and re-announce the property. In case the xcb connection died (future
XWayland crashing case) it is set to XCB_ATOM_NONE by that. In case the
xcb connection got created (future delayed XWayland startup) the atom is
set to the proper value.
In addition all usages of the support properties are guarded, so that no
nonesense actions are performed if the support property is XCB_ATOM_NONE.
Test Plan: Only compile tested as we don't have XFree KWin yet
Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma
Subscribers: plasma-devel, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D7761
Summary:
This patch caputres from the framebuffer using the framebuffer's
geometry, factoring in scale. We then keep the current normal DPI
framebuffer causing it to downsample there.
This is good because:
- it keeps the code very simple
- it's a performance optimisation. Blurring on 4k is naturally more
expensive than at regular DPI. Downsampling keeps it the same - and you
can't see a difference given it's high DPI and you're going to blur it
anwyay.
- it keeps kernel sizes somewhat resolution independent so it will look
just as blurry across multiple screens.
::doCachedBlur still needs doing.
Test Plan:
Ran an app
Ran the kwindowsystem blur test
Observed the right part of the window being blurred
Reviewers: #plasma
Subscribers: plasma-devel
Tags: #plasma
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D4963
Summary:
By changing all kcfg to have arg="true" we can pass in the same
KSharedConfigPtr into all effects. This allows to have fake config in
the tests and in the planned effect demo mode.
Also it means that we don't have to hardcode the name kwinrc into the
files. In the configs - where we cannot access the effectshandler - we
use the define KWIN_CONFIG which gets generated based on the compile
time arguments.
Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma
Subscribers: plasma-devel, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D3571
Summary:
The glCopyTex(Sub)Image calls are adjusted to take the per output
rendering into account. In addition contrast effect sets the model view
projection matrix in each call to ensure it's on the correct screen.
Blur probably needs more changes for the cached texture to work, but
it's a start.
Test Plan: Blur and Background contrast work on multi-screen wayland
Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma_on_wayland
Subscribers: plasma-devel, kwin
Tags: #plasma_on_wayland, #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D3101
even if scaled or translated, if WindowForceBlurRole is set
do the blur anyways
same thing for backgroundcontrast
reviewed by: Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin@kde.org>
Effects which require mipmaps need to check for LimitedNPOT and
disable the functionality if only limited NPOT is available.
Ideally the effects could also check whether the texture they
operate on is a power of two, but that's a little overkill for
the rather uncommon setup.
REVIEW: 126966
If a window is fullscreen and wants fullscreen blur behind it, we
use the blur from logout effect. This is mostly intended for the
Application Dashboard which requires a fullscreen blur. The generic
blur effect is not designed for such usage and is rather costly.
This simplified blur just needs framebuffer blit and midmaps. This
makes it rather cheap in usage and also doesn't need a cached texture.
REVIEW: 126906
The blur effect so far calculated a custom model view projection matrix.
This is not needed as we have the current projection matrix available in
WindowPaintData and EffectFrame.
REVIEW: 126215
Following the approach how it's done for X11: only create the interface
if the shader succeeded to compile and remove support again if it failed
to compile after a reconfigure.
REVIEW: 125444
