The current preference API - buildPrefsWidget() - predates client-side
decorations. While extension authors have been finding ways around
the limitation of not having access to the window/titlebar, the change
to the new Adwaita API seems like a good time for an updated API that
officially provides that access (as far as allowed by libadwaita).
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2012>
Adapt the new GNOME platform API for the upcoming 42. This makes
sure that we get the latest version of the stylesheet, as well as
support for the new dark mode.
Using the dedicated preference API also gives extensions with more
complex preferences an easier and standardized way for implementing
multi-page preferences.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2012>
The error UI comprises the bits that are actually custom. Splitting them
out from the off-the-shelf window makes it easier to replace the dialog
with libadwaita's dedicated preference window.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2012>
The REPLACE flag we currently pass is useless, as replacing the service
is disallowed when not started with the ALLOW_REPLACEMENT flag.
Fix this by adopting a more standard pattern where replacement is always
allowed, but only actually requested when `--replace` is passed on the
command line.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2152>
All fd.o Notifications signals are emitted for a particular notification,
so debugging aside, only the owner of said notification has a legitimate
reason to act on it.
So far we (and other implementations like the old notification-daemon)
have relied on the client-side to properly filter the signals (like
libnotify), but at least the QT implementation is known to not do
that.
Enforce correct client behavior by only emitting the signal to the
original sender.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/5008
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2153>
Instead of testing if the videos directory exists and using the home
directory otherwise, just try to create the target directory. This
aligns with how the screenshot UI handles the screenshots folder, and
it's convenient for putting screencasts into a subdirectory.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2102>
Like the main gnome-shell process, the extensions service loads code from
extensions. It therefore makes sense to prevent GType name clashes there
as well, just like we already to in the gnome-shell process.
This may break some extensions that use the old type name in .ui files,
but they can be fixed easily by specifying an explicit GTypeName.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2024>
Replace deprecated functions with their direct replacements:
- dep.get_pkgconfig_variable() → dep.get_variable()
- prg.path() → prg.full_path()
- source/build_root() → project_source/build_root()
In one case we need meson.global_source_root() that was only
added in meson 0.58, so bump the requirement to that.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2077>
Showing multiple preference dialogs at the same time (for instance
by repeated `gnome-extensions prefs` calls) may or may not work as
expected, depending on whether any of the dialogs is modal or not
(read: opened via the Extensions app).
The easiest way to address this is to disallow more than a single
dialog at the time. It's arguably also the more predictable behavior,
and means extensions don't have to deal with inconsistent state
caused by multiple dialogs.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/4564
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2013>
GTK4 relies entirely on refcounting for cleanup (that is,
there is no longer a destroy() method that forces a dispose
run regardless of the refcount).
Unfortunately that makes cleanup harder in (some) language
bindings, where an object may be kept alive implicitly by
closures etc.
Address this by releasing the hold count when the window
is closed rather than when it is destroyed.
This isn't the most elegant, but it ensure that the service
doesn't get stuck if an extension doesn't carefully clean
up everything in its prefs widget.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/4564
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/2013>
If parsing the pipeline fails for some reason, we currently end up
with a zombie session that leads to a stuck recording indicator in
gnome-shell.
Instead, properly tear down the session to allow mutter and gnome-shell
to correctly update their state.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1878>
The current gstreamer pipeline performs quite bad on slower machines and
is dropping lots of frames, improve the pipeline by changing a few
things:
- Use threads for videoconvert and improve speed of videoconvert by
disabling some unneeded things
- Add a queue before the encoding step, this allows the encoder to work
at its own pace and will lead to a lot more stability
- Remove the fixed quantizer and only set a max quantizer, this helps
quite a bit with performance
- Change the deadline parameter of vp8enc to 1: This makes the encoder
go into real time mode, which will make it a lot faster
- Set cpu-used to 16, the maximum possible value.
- Set static-threshold to 1000, static-threshold is the motion detection
threshold, and while a value of 100 is recommended for screencasting in
the gstreamer documentation (see [1]), using 1000 appears to perform a
lot better and still outputs fairly good quality
- Set a larger buffer size than the default size, this seems to get a
bit more stability during high load scenarios
All in all, those changes make the pipeline drop no more frames when
recording at 30 FPS and 2K screen resolution. That was tested on a
fairly recent mobile core-i5 processor.
Also, because we now have two %T replacement strings for the number of
threads, we need to switch to replaceAll(). For that to work, we have to
put the %T matching expression into quotes.
[1] https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/vpx/GstVPXEnc.html?gi-language=c#GstVPXEnc:static-threshold
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1633>
For the screensaver service, it is quite normal that a consumer only
subscribes to the "ActiveChanged" signal without calling any methods.
The result is that we don't know about the consumer, and shut down
the service anyway after we hit the timeout.
If this happens, we break functionality like gnome-settings-daemon's
screen blanking on idle.
Fix this by simply disabling auto-shutdown for the service, which
also reflects the expectation that the screen saver service is
always running in a GNOME session.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/4114
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1824>
This was forgotten when porting to GTK 4, leading to the following error
when user tries to copy the error message produced by an extension:
JS ERROR: TypeError: Gtk.Clipboard is undefined
_initActions/<@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensionsService.js:255:31
run@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/dbusService.js:177:20
main@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/main.js:19:13
run@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/script/package.js:206:19
start@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/script/package.js:190:8
@/nix/store/fwnkwvhwm3kqck4fhkc5y5z853radggg-gnome-shell-40.0/share/gnome-shell/.org.gnome.Shell.Extensions-wrapped:7:17
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1795>
Between the GTK4 port and the latest GTK4 version, calling realize()
on a newly created window to force its surface to be created stopped
working.
So instead, wait for the window to get realized regularly to set its
parent.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1574>
With the previous preparations in place, it is time to take the plunge.
As both the app and the portal use the same small library for handling
external windows, port everything at once to avoid the hassle of building
and installing two versions of the library.
With the portal using GTK4 now, all extensions must port their preference
widgets as well.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1495>
We currently use separate frames for the details expander and the
expanded details. That layout works as long as frames are boxy (as
in the default GTK3 style), but breaks down with rounded corners
(as in the default GTK4 style).
In order to work with either style, adapt the layout to use a single
surrounding frame and appropriate borders as separator.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1495>
GTK4 will remove the GtkHeaderBar:title property, so stop using it
and set the window's title property instead, as that's what headbars
use in both GTK3 and GTK4 unless explicitly overridden.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1495>
There's little point in setting properties to their default value,
so stop doing that.
(GtkFrame:shadow-type actually defaults to "edged-in" rather than "in",
but all types other than "none" are treated the same nowadays)
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1495>
Move the screencasting into a separate D-Bus service process, using
PipeWire instead of Clutter API. The service is implemented in
Javascript using the dbusService.js helper, and implements the same API
as was done by screencast.js and the corresponding C code.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1372
If something started the service, but crashed before managing to make a
method call, we'd end up with the service running indefinitely. Fix this
by queueing a shutdown check immediately on startup.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1372
For fd.o notifications, we are taking the sender's PID into
account when associating notifications with sources (mainly
to deal with notify-send).
This broke when the implementation under the well-known name
was moved into a separate service, as the implementation in
gnome-shell will now always see the public notification-daemon
as sender.
Restore the old behavior by resolving the sender PID in the
separate service, and pass it as hint to the implementation
in gnome-shell.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/2592
As outlined earlier, in order to turn the Extensions app into a properly
sandboxed application, we need to split out the extension prefs dialog
and move it elsewhere.
With "elsewhere" being the new Extensions D-Bus service, effectively
turning it into a shell extensions portal.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1106
Similar to the previously added org.freedesktop.Notifications proxy,
this exposes the org.gnome.Shell.Extensions API and forwards any
request to the real implementation in gnome-shell.
The motivation differs though: We want to be able to package the
extension app as flatpak and distribute it separately, but the
extension prefs dialog is hard to impossible to sandbox:
- filenames need translating between host and sandbox, and we
can only do that in some cases (serializing/deserializing
extensions), but not others (extension settings that refer
to files)
- system extensions install their GSettings schemas in the system
path; the best we can do there is assume a host prefix of /usr
and set GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR in the flatpak (eeks)
- extensions may rely on additional typelibs that are present on
the host (for example because gnome-shell itself depends on
them), but not inside the sandbox - unless we bundle all of
gnome-shell's dependencies
- if gjs/mozjs differ between host and sandbox, extensions must
handle different runtimes for the extension and its prefs
And all those issues occur despite a very permissive sandbox (full
host filesystem access, full dconf access, full org.gnome.Shell
access (including Eval()!)).
This new service will give us an alternative place for handling
the preference dialog:
- it runs outside of gnome-shell process, so can open windows
- it runs on the host, so the extension's prefs get to run
in the same namespace as the extension itself
That is, the service will provide portal-like functionality (albeit
not using the org.freedesktop.portal.* namespace, as extension
management is an inherently privileged operation).
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1106
While we only shut down after a method call completed or (if the
interface has signals) the sender disconnects from the bus, services
may need to inhibit auto-shutdown for more specific reasons themselves,
for example when a method call kicks off an operation that should
complete before shutting down.
Add hold() and release() methods like Gio.Application for those cases.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1115
Add a small service that exposes the Fdo notification API under the
well-known name, and forwards any requests to the actual implementation
in the shell.
That way any app with permission to talk to org.freedesktop.Notifications
will get exactly that, and nothing more.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/547
There are a couple of D-Bus services that are currently provided by
gnome-shell for which it makes sense to move them fully or partially
into separate processes:
- screen recording (performance)
- FDO notifications (security)
- Extensions (portalization)
Add some base classes and build system glue to take care of the
common boilerplate.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/547
