The port to KDecoration2 means quite some changes in the way how Aurorae
works. First of all: the theme to load is passed to the Deocoration ctor
and not searched for by Aurorae itself.
The rendering mechanismn didn't change significantly yet. It's still
rendering to an FBO and passing the image on. This needs some further
work as KDecoration2 does not support the padding any more. So all
themes using shadow are currently broken.
Another big change is the way how the rendering scene is constructed
and used. KDecoration2 doesn't want the the Decoration to be a native
window. But for being able to render a QtQuick scene at all we need a
QQuickWindow. Thus it creates a window parented to the decoration id,
but not accepting any input event. Input is nowadays controlled from
the outside: events are passed into the Decoration, so we don't want
the QtQuick window intercepting events.
In case of non-composited the normal FBO mechanism doesn't work and
Aurorae just renders to the QQuickWindow directly. This could use
some optimization in the decoration renderer in KWin core to not even
try to perform the normal rendering. On the other hand it's probably
too much a hassle for the use case.
The rendering architecture might hopefully be improved with Qt 5.4
and the new QQuickRenderControl class.
The QQuickWindow also exposes a problem for preview in the
kdecoration-viewer and the future KCM: we don't want a different
window, but best would be to get to the QML scene directly. A small
hack is added to have the previewers set a "visualParent" which Aurorae
uses to parent the QML scene to without the need to create a
QQuickWindow.
A decoration plugin can indicate that it supports themes. For this
the decoration plugin needs to specify in the org.kde.kdecoration2
group of the JSON meta data the following:
themes: true,
defaultTheme: "nameofDefaultTheme"
If the themes key/value pair is present and set to true KWin will
read the entry "theme" in the [org.kde.kdecoration2] group with the
value of defaultTheme as the default value.
The read value (if there is one) is passed to the created decoration
in the QVariantList. The QVariantList contains a QVariantMap as first
entry and the theme name is passed for key "theme".
KWIN_HAVE_EGL was set to EGL_FOUND which doesn't make sense as EGL is
marked as a runtime dependency. Instead a new build option KWIN_BUILD_EGL
is added defaulting to ON. If set to OFF neither the X11 nor the Wayland
EGL backend are built.
CCBUG: 340171
As we use epoxy we don't need them any more. KWin compiles, links and
runs just fine without ever trying to find OpenGL or OpenGLES.
BUG: 340170
FIXED-IN: 5.2.0
We don't want the cursor to leave the visible area, so better check that
the cursor doesn't leave it. And when the screens changes better check
that the cursor is still on a visible screen. If not: put it back to the
center of the closest screen.
kwin_wayland gains a new command line option to enable libinput support.
This is needed as logind blanks the VT when the session controller
releases the control. So a nested compositor can seriously affect the
primary session. Thus it needs a dedicated command line switch to
enable it.
By default libinput support is disabled for kwin_x11 and can be enabled
for kwin_wayland in case KWin is compiled with libinput support.
LogindIntegration starts monitoring the Active property on the session
and emits a signal when the state changes. The LibInput::Connection
connects to this signal during the setup and uses it to suspend/resume
the libinput context.
With libinput we have the problem that we need to have privileges to
open the device files. In order to not need wrappers or suid bits, we
use logind. This means that kwin_wayland has to be the session controler.
A LogindIntegration is added to connect to logind and wrap the dbus
calls. This is based on the logind integration done for ksld in
ksmserver. The LogindIntegration is started by Workspace and the
InputRedirection tries to become the session controller and starts the
libinput integration only after this succeeded.
Libinput is an optional dependency for getting low level input events.
As opening the input devices requires root privs this is rather
pointless in the current state. But there is a small added test app which
can be executed with root privs to demonstrate the functionality. To
properly get input events we need a wrapper like it's used in weston.
So far the following is setup:
* opening devices found by udev
* forwarding keyboard events to InputRedirection
* forwarding pointer button events to InputRedirection
* forwarding pointer axis events to InputRedirection
* signals emitted for pointer motion events
Pointer motion events need some further work as they are provided
as delta events. We need to track that and map them properly.
Also missing are touch events due to me not having a touch screen.
It should be fairly simple to setup the touch events, though.
Also hotplugging of devices is not yet implemented.
It was used to check whether we should create the Wayland interaction,
but now that is in kwin_wayland and kwin_x11 doesn't even try to create
the WaylandBackend.
The idea is to manage the cursor position by ourself. This is needed
when KWin gains libinput support and doesn't rely on the Seat anymore.
The suggestion for this is to use SubSurfaces. The nice side-effect is
that we can do cursor warping again which we need e.g. for ScreenEdge
activation or for the kill helper, etc. Clients on the other side
still cannot (and should not) warp the pointer.
This means the X11CursorTracker is no longer bound to the WaylandSeat.
Instead the WaylandSeat just connects to the signal emitted by the
X11CursorTracker. This allows to use the X11CursorTracker also in cases
where we don't use a Seat for setting the cursor image.
We are interested in going into createSurface exactly once when
everything is ready. This is something we now know due to the new signal
in Registry. So instead of multiple entry points there is just one.
