Startup notifications optionally contain the target desktop the app should be launched to.
If present the window is sent to that desktop, if not it is sent to the current desktop.
Later in Workspace::activateWindow we check if the window is on the current desktop, and if not
we either move it to the current desktop or switch to the window's desktop depending on user preference.
However, this is broken because the window was already moved to the current desktop. To avoid this
only move the window if specifically requested by the startup id.
BUG: 462996
Things such as Output, InputDevice and so on are made to be
multi-purpose. In order to make this separation more clear, this change
moves that code in the core directory. Some things still link to the
abstraction level above (kwin), they can be tackled in future refactors.
Ideally code in core/ should depend either on other code in core/ or
system libs.
When a window that is on a different virtual desktop than the current one gets
activated, the current behavior is that the active virtual desktop will be switched
to the one the activated window is on. This may seem reasonable for a scenario where
the user explicitly intends to activate an existing window on a different desktop.
However, the following scenario is also (perhaps even more?) common: When an
application responds to a launch command by requesting to activate an existing
instance instead of opening a new one (such as Firefox or KDE System Settings), an
existing window on any desktop will get activated even when what the user had in
mind was opening a new window (on the desktop they are currently in).
This means that opening an application, such as following a URL or accessing a
system setting, unexpectedly results in the user being teleported to a different
virtual desktop. This can be very irritating. The more expected behavior for these
users would be to have windows always open on the desktop where they are called
from. That's is what this commit adds as a new option.
BUG: 438375
FIXED-IN: 5.26
This change adjusts the window management abstractions in kwin for the
drm backend providing more than just "desktop" outputs.
Besides that, it has other potential benefits - for example, the
Workspace could start managing allocation of the placeholder output by
itself, thus leading to some simplifications in the drm backend. Another
is that it lets us move wayland code from the drm backend.
Currently, we implicitly assume that enabled outputs are stored in the
xinerama order, but with ongoing refactorings, it's easy to break that
assumption. Also, we are not going to change the DRM backend so it
stores enabled outputs in the xinerama order.
This change adds xinerama index conversion helpers in order to reduce
the number of potential regressions with output refactorings.
It helps to contextualise the method as it's using several x11-isms,
some of them possible ot abstract.
In any case, the method is only called with X11Window and it's the only
case where it makes sense doing so.
AbstractOutput is not so Abstract and it's common to avoid the word
"Abstract" in class names as it doesn't contribute any new information.
It also significantly reduces the line width in some places.
The .clang-format file is based on the one in ECM except the following
style options:
- AlwaysBreakBeforeMultilineStrings
- BinPackArguments
- BinPackParameters
- ColumnLimit
- BreakBeforeBraces
- KeepEmptyLinesAtTheStartOfBlocks
This ensures that we get a warning if the config header is not included
instead of compiling the code as if it was disabled. Interestingly, some
checks already used #if KWIN_BUILD_*, so those were generating -Wundef
warnings when the feature is disabled. Commit 886173cab assumed that all
those features were already 01, so this unbreaks the build if any of the
features is disabled.
Fixes: 886173cab ("Reduce ifdefs in Workspace::supportInformation()")
Active output is a window management concept. It indicates what output
new windows have to be placed on if they have no output hint. So
Workspace seems to be a better place for it than the Screens class, which
is obsolete.
This is a little helper that can be very convenient with our transition
from int-based screen ids to AbstractOutput.
As is, the main issue with int screen ids is that they are extremely
dynamic.
Workspace::takeActivity() forces the modal dialog and its parent window
to be on the same virtual desktop. It uses int-based desktop ids for
that purpose.
This change ports the relevant parts of Workspace::takeActivity() to the
VirtualDesktop object.
toplevel.h is included in many places. Changing virtualdesktops.h may
trigger rebuild of all kwin.
With this change, only cpp files that use virtualdesktops.h will need to
be recompiled.
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.
