The change is mostly straight forward. Effects are straight forward
adjusted. Client::findModal is moved up, this causes still a few
dynamic_casts to Client. Mostly because Workspace::activateClient still
operates on Client.
As external interface it still returns Client* to not force the casts
to be done at usages. This will be changed once the users are migrated
to AbstractClient*.
The idea for this base class is to provide access to all elements which
make up a managed "Client" being it X11 or Wayland. They share a lot,
like they have a caption, they can be minimized, etc. etc.
Of course it would have also been possible to derive a new class from
Client, but that looks like the more difficult task as Client is very
X11 specific.
So far only a very small interface is extracted with pure-virtual
methods. This is going to change by moving the functionality up into
the AbstractClient.
The interface extracted so far is inspired by the usage of FocusChain
and users of FocusChain.
The ShellClient is a Toplevel subclass for a
KWayland::Server::ShellSurfaceInterface. It gets created when a new
ShellSurfaceInterface is created and destoryed when it gets unmapped.
So far the usage is still rather limited. The ShellClient is opened
at position (0/0). While it's possible to pass pointer events to it,
it's not yet possible to activate it, so no keyboard focus.
Toplevel::windowRole accesses WinInfo unconditionally causing crashes
if we have a Toplevel subclass which doesn't use WinInfo. So let's
make it virtual and copy to Deleted.
This was suggested to be done in a comment. The existing code might
have returned incorrect results for Client. So let's get the primary
window type and use that one.
Toplevel::opacity() accesses the WinInfo, but for a Wayland client
we won't have the opacity through the WinInfo, so let's have it as
a virtual method that a subclass can override. Also it needs to be
copied to Deleted to not have a Deleted of a Wayland client crash
because it accesses the not existing WinInfo.
This backend interacts with libhybris to create a hwcomposer which is
used for creating the egl context and surface. The initial version of
this backend is based on test_hwcomposer.cpp provided by libhybris.
Please note that using the hwcomposer backend requires a newer libepoxy,
the latest stable release is not able to bring up OpenGLES, so one needs
a master build of libepoxy.
Notes on licensing:
libhybris is Apache 2.0 licensed, which is not compatile with GPLv2.
But it is compatible with GPLv3. Thus the source files in the hwcomposer
backend are licensed GPLv3+ and not GPLv2+ as the rest of KWin. If one
uses KWin without the hwcomposer backend (which is obviously the default)
the licence doesn't change. But if the hwcomposer backend is used the
overall license of KWin changes to GPLv3+.
The glVersion was not set at all for gles causing any code doing a
hasGLVersion check to fail which means that the compositor doesn't
start at all, because it has a hasGLVersion(2, 0) check.
The complete ifdef is no longer needed. The used additional glGetStringi
is also available in gles 3.0, thus epoxy can handle it quite well
without a need for ifdef.
Unfortunately the version string can be "strange" on GLES. On desktop
it looks like: "3.0 some driver foo", on GLES it could also be:
"OpenGL ES 3.0 some driver bar". Thus to make the logic work we are
first removing any leading "OpenGL ES " and hope that then the version
is encoded just like on GL.
Each of the backends becomes a plugin. This allows kwin_wayland to load
the requested plugin and kwin itself doesn't need to link all the
libraries needed. E.g. libdrm is no longer linked if running kwin_x11.
Also this allows to create backends for the non-standard EGL platforms
(examples could be raspberrypi or Android devices).
With this change all backends need to emit the screensQueried signal
at some point. So far only x11 backend did not provide the signal,
wayland had a comparable delayed init mechanism. Now all backends use
the same mechanism.
Replaces the functionality of the WaylandBackend and makes it available
to all backends by providing the functionality directly in
AbstractBackend. By default a backend is not ready and the implementation
must call setReady(true) to indicate that setup has finished
successfully. The compositor won't start till the backend indicates that
it is ready.
The aim is to be able to create a plugin for each of the backends.
The following directories are created:
* backends/drm
* backends/fbdev
* backends/wayland
* backends/x11
Martin Gräßlin