given that compositing is always enabled and that it's crucial to be able to change these settings, potentially having them unavailable is not a great way to live
huge fustercluck commit because there wasn't really a way to separate out the changes. better to just rip it all out at once.
* compositor and window management completely rewritten. this was the goal for E19, but it pretty much required everything existing to be scrapped since it wasn't optimized, streamlined, or sensible. now instead of having the compositor strapped to the window manager like an outboard motor, it's housed more like an automobile engine.
** various comp structs have been merged into other places (eg. E_Comp_Zone is now just part of E_Zone where applicable), leading to a large deduplication of attributes
** awful E_Comp_Win is totally dead, having been replaced with e_comp_object smart objects which work just like normal canvas objects
** protocol-specific window management and compositor functionality is now kept exclusively in backend files
** e_pixmap api provides generic client finding and rendering api
** screen/xinerama screens are now provided directly by compositor on startup and re-set on change
** e_comp_render_update finally replaced with eina_tiler
** wayland compositor no longer creates X windows
** compositor e_layout removed entirely
* e_container is gone. this was made unnecessary in E18, but I kept it to avoid having too much code churn in one release. its sole purpose was to catch some events and handle window stacking, both of which are now just done by the compositor infra
* e_manager is just for screensaver and keybind stuff now, possibly remove later?
* e_border is gone along with a lot of its api. e_client has replaced it, and e_client has been rewritten completely; some parts may be similar, but the design now relies upon having a functional compositor
** window configuration/focus functions are all removed. all windows are now managed solely with evas_object_X functions on the "frame" member of a client, just as any other canvas object can be managed.
*** do NOT set interceptors on a client's comp_object. seriously.
* startup order rewritten: compositor now starts much earlier, other things just use attrs and members of the compositor
* ecore_x_pointer_xy_get usage replaced with ecore_evas_pointer_xy_get
* e_popup is totally gone, existing usage replaced by e_comp_object_util_add where applicable, otherwise just placed normally on the canvas
* deskmirror is (more) broken for now
* illume is totally fucked
* Ecore_X_Window replaced with Ecore_Window in most cases
* edge binding XWindows replaced with regular canvas objects
* some E_Win functionality has changed such that delete callbacks are now correctly called in ALL cases. various dialogs have been updated to not crash as a result
comp files and descriptions:
e_comp.c - overall compositor functions, rendering/update loop, shape cutting
e_comp_x.c - X window management and compositor functionality
e_comp_wl.c - Wayland surface management and compositor functionality
e_comp_canvas.c - general compositor canvas functions and utilities
e_comp_object.c - E_Client->frame member for managing clients as Evas_Objects, utility functions for adding objects to the compositor rendering systems
additional authors: ivan.briano@intel.com
feature: new compositor
removal: e_border, e_container, e_popup
realistically I shouldn't have merged this into the release last year.
failing that, I probably should have removed it after the release.
even if I didn't remove it, I should have at least updated/tested it.
I did none of these things, and neither did anyone else, and thus we have an unmaintained module in core.
NOT ON MY WATCH
now e only uses elementary's theme. this is to stop the bitrot and
forking of e's theme vs the unified elm theme that has everything for
e in it already. this obviously makes elm a requirement of e18 on, and
this also notes that emotion is always in efl these days, so its no
longer an option, and ecore-imf is no longer used as edje does the
entires now itself. in future it'll all be elm.
this is a major unification point for themes for elm and e. this will
need some testing, but everything seems to work day-to-day, but theme
selector is untested.
this also removes the theme selector for splash as that is now simply
unified with the same theme as everything else.
* Move compositor to core, but letting the configuration there
* Rename all files and functions from e_mod_comp_* to e_comp_*
* Move the config dialogs to a new module named conf_comp. It still
uses a domain config, otherwise it would not pick the current
user's configuration. Maybe it would be wise to later on move these
options to e_config
* Fixup the wizard mess linking the header in the build tree in order
to be able to create the config. Since now it's in core, we don't
need to play linking games in the build system
I'm not sure if the wayland part works. It was not even building
previously so I'll let for who cares about this to actually test and
report bugs.
SVN revision: 82454
dropshadow module conflicts with composite, which will be always enabled
by future commits. Remove the module to allow turning composite as
always-enabled.
SVN revision: 82224
used). removed setting up and deletion of keybindings - now its in
normal keybindings config territory. set them up yourself. much more
solid now. happy.
SVN revision: 70552
have done here beyond just "copy the code" is:
1. fix up some code that was useless (didnt need to be done).
2. reformat all the code to be closer to efl/e style guidelines
3. add flags to the gadget popup menu to change keyboard
4. fix lots of warnings
5. fix some correctness in c - () vs (void)
6. added q66 to AUTHORS
7. made it use _() intl macro, not D_() (needed)
8. put xkbswitch module stuff in theme (need some prettying/work)
9. added some XXX: comments on things to do
right now xkbswithc is actually very powerful (thanks q66) but its not
that user-friendly. it lets you add a short-list of "keyboard layouts"
you nee/duse. the gagdet lets you quick-switch between them. this
actually works. it has nice little flaggy things to try help you out.
what we probably need to do is:
1. fix a buffer overflow waiting to happen in the kbdswitch changing.
XXX'd
2. add a wizard page asking for kbd layout
3. double-check that "last used kbdlayout" is actually turned on
4. move xkbd config to core e config (not separate in module)
5. pretty up the gagdet (add a shadow around the flag, some
placeholder if no flag is selected etc.)
6. go over the xkb parser - it looks fragile from a read
:)
SVN revision: 70531