This needs to be improved in core. Currently ClientGroup does not yet
emit signals, as it would be difficult to connect them. Nevertheless
the effects dependency should be removed.
EffectsHandlerImpl just forwards the signals from TabBox. In order
to have a valid pointer to the TabBox, the TabBox is now initialized
before compositing in Workspace.
EffectsHandlerImpl connects to the Workspace signal clientActivated.
The emitting of the signal is slightly moved from before the activation logic
to after the activation logic. This might change behavior in the scripting
component, but the previous code looked wrong.
Client and Unmanaged use a signal to notify that they are about to be closed.
The EffectsHandlerImpl is connected to those signals and emits the appropriate
windowClosed signal to which the effects are connected.
All previously existing windowAdded methods are renamed to slotWindowAdded.
EffectsHandlerImpl is connected to Workspace's clientAdded signal, which is
emitted a little bit earlier than the previous direct method call. This might
change behavior.
Another signal is added to Workspace to signal that an unmanaged is added.
The first signal used between EffectsHandler and Effects.
The signal is actually emitted by the EffectsHandlerImpl and only
the interested effects connect to this signal.
EffectsHandlerImpl itself is also notified by a signal from Workspace,
allowing to remove one of the many if (effects) checks.
Since the EffectFrames have been moved into KWin core nothing in the
Effects lib actually used Plasma. The only remaining method is moved
to core as it's not used in the Effects. The Effects itself still
link against Plasma, so nothing changes for them.
The Plasma includes in the kwineffects header seemed to pull in
quite some additional headers, so the includes in some effects have
to be adjusted (most often KConfigGroup). This should speed up the
compilation of the library and the effects.
possibly prevents leaking ItemInfos
secure some accesses (selected_window), not sure whether this caused the unreproducable crash when used as proxy in coverswitch
manual fwd port of 84384efb52367e720ad82ace04ac8da668afc5ec
CCBUG: 253079
invert.cpp refers to the apparently removed kwinshadereffect.h,
so it's probably missing out on some sort of porting activity.
CCMAIL:kde@martin-graesslin.com
The shadow effect is known to be broken since at least 4.5.
It is unfortunately in a state which makes it difficult to maintain
and the architecture has some serious drawbacks. Therefore it is the
best solution to replace the effect with a new and better
implementation. For more information about the new implementation
please see the discussion on KWin mailinglist:
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kwin&m=129607406517609&w=2
This also "fixes" all existing bug reports about the shadow effect.
Most of the bugs will really be fixed when the new shadow system is
implemented, if not it is a new bug and a new report should be created
for it.
Please excuse that we go this unnormal approach to mark bugs as
fixed with code removal.
BUG: 164084
BUG: 160948
BUG: 189241
BUG: 229164
BUG: 258663
BUG: 216709
BUG: 243890
FIXED-IN: 4.7.0
The usefulness of the snow effect is doubtable and it is rather
difficult to port the effect to the new rendering architecture
introduced with GLES. It is probably easier to rewrite the complete
effect from scratch, therefore it is removed for now.
I might consider readding it for 4.7.
This kind of "fixes" snow related bug reports.
BUG: 259362
BUG: 254498
FIXED-IN: 4.7.0
The effect has been known to cause some problems for quite some time
and is not really useful. Therfore dropping the effect.
See discussion on kwin mailinglist:
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kwin&m=129597766829618&w=2
It now uses a GLShader for GLSL shaders and pushes it using the
ShaderManager.
It does not work with the nouveau driver plus GLES, but it works
with fglrx + desktop GL 2.x, so I assume it is a driver problem here.
Martin Gräßlin