Now that we have Wayland around, there's a whole branch of dependencies
that shouldn't be necessary anymore.
This allows to build KWin without all of it, allowing us to have a much
more compact alignment for cases where all the legacy software isn't
necessary anymore.
Bundle KWindowSystem X11-specific headers into it too, since it's part
of the same process.
Signed-off-by: Victoria Fischer <victoria.fischer@mbition.io>
The new scale value is written but it's not flushed to the disk so
when kcm_fonts_init and kcm_style_init run, they use the old scale
value.
CCBUG: 480792
It would be the case upon lid close which would make KWin crash. Also
adds an assert so in case it happened again we would be able to catch it
easily. It gets applied asynchronously so it needs to be chased down.
Instead of an external service (like KScreen) storing and restoring output configurations,
with this commit KWin takes over that responsibility. This allows it to, among other things,
generate appropriate configs for new sets of outputs immediately, and take KWin-internal information
about outputs into account when generating them.
CCBUG: 474021
CCBUG: 469653
CCBUG: 466342
CCBUG: 470863
CCBUG: 466556
BUG: 466208
BUG: 455082
BUG: 457430
We want the platform cursor to have roughly the same lifespan as the
application.
By using QObject parent mechanism, this gets deleted after the
Application destructor in the QObject destructor.
This causes an issue that removing an event filter (used by the X11
cursor) calls into the application singleton which is no longer valid.
BUG: 465970
* speeds up incremental builds as changes to a header will not always
need the full mocs_compilation.cpp for all the target's headers rebuild,
while having a moc file sourced into a source file only adds minor
extra costs, due to small own code and the used headers usually
already covered by the source file, being for the same class/struct
* seems to not slow down clean builds, due to empty mocs_compilation.cpp
resulting in those quickly processed, while the minor extra cost of the
sourced moc files does not outweigh that in summary.
Measured times actually improved by some percent points.
(ideally CMake would just skip empty mocs_compilation.cpp & its object
file one day)
* enables compiler to see all methods of a class in same compilation unit
to do some sanity checks
* potentially more inlining in general, due to more in the compilation unit
* allows to keep using more forward declarations in the header, as with the
moc code being sourced into the cpp file there definitions can be ensured
and often are already for the needs of the normal class methods
The InputConfig was introduced to handle tests that don't have valid
kwinApp object. Those tests have been either reworked or dropped, so
let's drop the InputConfig to tidy the config stuff.
Use CursorSource::image() instead.
Cursor caching in the ScreenCastStream has been changed so
QImage::cacheKey() is not being used. This is rather a preparation for
making kwin grab the contents of the cursor scene.
We use KWIN_NAME, KWIN_INTERNAL_NAME_X11 and KWIN_INTERNAL_WAYLAND
properly only in a few places. In other, we use hardcoded names.
Let's not bother and hardcode kwin names everywhere rather than have one
foot in and one foot out, it's simpler.
Due to being a compositor, kwin has to conform to some certain
interfaces. It means a lot of virtual functions and function tables to
integrate with C APIs. Naturally, we not always want to use every
argument in such functions.
Since we get -Wunused-parameter from -Wall, we have to plumb those
unused arguments in order to suppress compiler warnings at the moment.
However, I don't think that extra work is worth it. We cannot change or
alter prototypes in any way to fix the warning the desired way. Q_UNUSED
and similar macros are not good indicators of whether an argument is
used too, we tend to overlook putting or removing those macros. I've
also noticed that Q_UNUSED are not used to guide us with the removal no
longer needed parameters.
Therefore, I think it's worth adding -Wno-unused-parameter compiler
option to stop the compiler producing warnings about unused parameters.
It changes nothing except that we don't need to put Q_UNUSED anymore,
which can be really cumbersome sometimes. Note that it doesn't affect
unused variables, you'll still get a -Wunused-variable compiler warning
if a variable is unused.
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.
The Session can be useful not only to the platform backend but also
input backends and for things such as vt switching, etc. Therefore it's
better to have the Application own the Session.
Platform backends are provided as plugins. This is great for
extensibility, but the disadvantages of this design outweigh the
benefits.
The number of backends will be limited, it's safe to say that we will
have to maintain three backends for many years to come - kms/drm,
virtual, and wayland. The plugin system adds unnecessary complexity.
Startup logic is affected too. At the moment, platform backends provide
the session object, which is awkward as it starts adding dependencies
between backends. It will be nicer if the session is created depending
on the loaded session type.
In some cases, wayland code needs to talk to the backend directly, e.g.
for drm leasing, etc. With the plugin architecture it's hard to do that.
Not impossible though, we can approach it as in Qt 6, but it's still
harder than linking the code directly.
Of course, the main disadvantage of shipping backends in a lib is that
you will need to patch kwin if you need a custom platform, however such
cases will be rare.
Despite that disadvantage, I still think that it's a step in the right
direction where the goal is to have multi-purpose backends and other
reusable components of kwin.
The legacy X11 standalone platform is linked directly to kwin_x11
executable, while the remaining backends are linked to libkwin.
Aleix Pol Gonzalez
Vlad Zahorodnii
Aleix Pol
Xaver Hugl
Laurent Montel
David Edmundson
Nicolas Fella