Now that full-sized window previews are allowed again it makes sense to
align the window previews with the pixel grid to prevent unscaled
windows from looking blurry in the overview.
Currently the chrome layer decides itself which events on the window
clone should show or hide the chrome, which makes it harder to extent.
Instead, move the decision to the window clone by letting it emit
show/hide-chrome events when appropriate.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783953
Previews are currently limited to at most 70% of the actual window
size. This was done to indicate more clearly that the overview is
active and the window cannot be interacted with. However since then
other indications like the vignette effect have been added, so
artificially limiting the preview size doesn't look necessary anymore.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783953
Now that only one window title is visible at any time, it no longer
matters if a title extends into other window previews, so we can
always show the full title.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783953
While the new title position gives the previews more space, they now
overlay the content which may hide valuable information. Address this
by only revealing the title as additional information on hover, like
we do for other auxiliary elements.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783953
We consider the window previews the primary way to identify a window,
so it makes sense to give them as much space as possible. So in order
to not have title captions take up too much vertical space, overlay
them on top of the preview borders.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783953
In case where a method- and property name overlap, using the method
is less unambiguous than I thought - mozjs52-based gjs will only see
the method, while mozjs38-based gjs will only see the property. We
are in luck though, and the real property name contains dashes that
allow us to refer to the property in a way that works for all gjs
versions.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785090
ClutterActor has both a has_pointer() method and a :has-pointer
property (that we represent as 'has_pointer'). So far gjs was
able to deal with the name overlap, but now trying to use the
property will instead test for the availability of the method.
Just avoid the conflict by switching to the method, which is
unambiguous.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785090
Any symbols (including class properties) that should be visible
outside the module it's defined in need to be defined as global.
For now gjs still allows the access for 'const', but get rid of
the warnings spill now by changing it.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785084
While we've always considered it good style to initialize JS properties,
some code that relies on uninitialized properties having an implicit
value of 'undefined' has slipped in over time. The updated SpiderMonkey
version used by gjs now warns when accessing those properties, so we
should make sure that they are properly initialized to avoid log spam,
even though all warnings addressed here occur in conditionals that
produce the correct result with 'undefined'.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781471
There were some source IDs that were not being reset to zero when
removing the associated sources, resulting on some critical errors
being dumped when _realRecalculateWindowPositions() got called
after that point, via _delayedWindowRepositioning().
Dragging and dropping app icons is expected to work anywhere over a
workspace, however overlaid elements are added to a separate hierarchy
and can thus block valid drop targets. This wasn't much of an issue
while we had just the window title, but since the addition of the
focus border, drops on window previews stopped working entirely.
Fix this by hiding all non-reactive overlay elements from picks.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=737166
Using a MetaWindowActor's shaped texture as the source for window
clones means that if there are further MetaSurfaceActor children
(e.g. a wayland client using sub-surfaces) they don't get cloned.
This obviously wasn't an issue until wayland clients introduced the
possibility of having multiple MetaSurfaceActors under a
MetaWindowActor but there's no fundamental reason we can't clone the
toplevel actor.
WorkspaceThumbnail.WindowClone is the one class that was already using
the MetaWindowActor instead of the texture although it seems to have
been an unintended change in commit
8b99617513.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756715
draggable.startDrag() is called directly here (i.e. manualMode is not set),
we must keep track of the touch event and pass it to startDrag() then.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756748
The previous code was applying the per row scaling factor of the current
row to the cumulative sum of all previous rows when calculating the y
position of a row. This resulted in the row being shifted up so it would
overlap other windows when the previous rows were not using the same
scaling as the current one.
Also the previous code was not considering that the spacing does not get
scaled when calculating the scaling factor. This is wrong as well and
could result in the overview overlapping the workspace switcher in
situations with lots of windows open.
This fix gives each row the appropriate height according to its scaling
factor and then ensures that the grid remains vertically centered after
losing some of its height.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744883
Turns out this makes interaction with the OSK or candidate popups
using a mouse basically impossible since they get dismissed when the
key focus is captured by a window in the overview.
This reverts commit aeb9f5775f.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745245
It is quite weird to have those calls/signals using WindowClone as an
argument, it is neater to pass MetaWindows around, and have each user
deal with their own representations of these.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735972
And use it to lookup the local WindowClone that applies. Otherwise,
WorkspaceThumbnail.WindowClone objects may be mistakenly set, which
are not usable interchangeably with Workspace.WindowClone ones. This
may lead to several misbehaviors as fields available in the second
object but not in the first one are accessed, some those undefined
values get used in math ops, which result in NaNs over the place.
Likewise, the similar functions in WorkspacesViewBase subclasses take
now MetaWindow arguments too.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735972
Since mutter commit 527c53a2a0582eba, MetaWorkspace::window-removed
is emitted *before* MetaWindow:workspace is updated, so the test
whether the removed window should still be on the workspace in
question will always return true.
Assume the test is no longer necessary nowadays to fix this very
obvious regression.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735608
Currently we are removing tweens of the button and border, but not from
the title. That causes the title to be in wrong positions sometimes when
dragging windows on the overview, given that the slider is moving and
therefore the windows + overlay are moving too.
To avoid that, remove tweens of the title as well.
The zooming animation of the windows looks nice when animating
from the workspace display page, but looks weird from other pages
like apps page or search page since the windows come from nowhere
with an initial position not known to the user.
Instead of that just fade the desktop with the windows in its
original position.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732901
When returning to the desktop from overview we always show the
workspaceDisplay, given that is which have the windows clones to allow
animations.
The problem becomes when previous that we were at some other
page, like Search or AppDisplay. The problem is that when showing the
workspaceDisplay the windows are repositioned. That's wanted except
when returning from overview, since that causes unwanted animations
of the windows.
To avoid that just not reposition the windows if leaving the overview.
We already have the width and height information cached in JS,
let's avoid going through gjs-gobject-clutter to retrieve them
again. As a plus, with normal properties the optimizer should
be able to generate better code.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729823
Windows in the overview should be like they appear in the workspace,
including modal dialogs that are attached above them.
In addition, hiding the dialogs in the overview causes a flash as
dialog appears at the end of the transition.
Based on a patch by Maxim Ermilov <zaspire@rambler.ru>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650843
Simply use St's existing key navigation system by making all the window
clones StWidgets, and making the WorkspacesView a focus group.
Since the workspace view is effectively "fake", we need to add a focus
delegator so that when key focus is assigned to the fake workspaces page,
we can keynav inside it properly.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644306
Because of the animation and collision with relayout, the title of windows in overview may not appear, mainly
the first time we enter in overview
With an animation delay of 0.1s, you'll not see the difference
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709392
We added special code to sort each row in the overview so that
windows were less likely to cross lines, but the awkward control
flow meant that everything but the last row got sorted.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707197
Commit 16fa186b63 attempted to fix the zoom animation problem
by throwing changes on the floor while the overview is animating. This has
the side effect that we might end up missing some positioning changes causes
windows to overlap the workspace thumbnails.
So revert those changes and fix it by simply by passing
WindowPositionFlags.ANIMATE during the overview animation.
This way the animation works as expected and we don't miss any position changes.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703105
Meta laters are invoked in reverse order of registration, so
having multiple laters propagating the geometry cause all but the
first one in the frame (which is usually wrong) to be ignored.
Instead, queue at most one later call, and use the last set geometry
in the callback.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700853
If windows are removed or added, we shouldn't keep the old layout, as it's
not valid anymore. If windows are removed, this is especially bad, as the
rows contain references to the removed window objects, causing crashes.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698622
Instead of applying an additional scale factor to all the rows in the
layout, only do it for those rows that don't fit.
This avoids the visual distraction of resizing a row when there's no
need to.
Instead of doing an entire recalculation of window positions when
sliding the thumbnails box, simply recalculate the position and scale
with basic aspect ratio math. This also ensures that windows won't
miraculously swap positions, even if we reposition windows while the
thumbnails box is expanded.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694469
Split out the part that moves the window clones around from
the part that calculates the window clone positions, and rename
both methods so that the overall meaning is more clear.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694469
Repositioning will eventually be separated from recalculation
to accomodate two different geometries, so we'll need to do
the padding and area manipulation in two different areas.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694469
As we want to eventually track two geometries, we need to rename
our very plain "_x, _y, _width, _height". While we could just prefix
them, I think that stuffing them in an object makes more sense.
At the same time, make the variable and method name more descriptive
by adding such a prefix, as well as a bit of documentation.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694469
This was saved so that doing something which called relayout
but only changed the area rectangle would simply be needed to
recompute window scaling parameters. With the new overview
relayout, the flow control changed, it turns out that the
current layout is always cleared. Remove this for now, and we'll
put in a different strategy for this.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694469
Windows can be restacked at any time, including when the stackAbove
property of the window clone is being dragged, and thus parented to
the uiGroup. To do stacking properly, we need to skip it for the duration
of the drag, and sync it again at the end (which is already done by
mutter because of the workspace change)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685285
This can happen if you open two or three terminal windows, and then
open the overview -- they're not centered. The issue is that because
of the WINDOW_CLONE_MAXIMUM_SCALE clamping, the scale that is being
laid out is different from the scale that the layout was calculated
for.
Implement and document a hack-ish solution which simply keeps the
scale for the layout as originally calculated, but centers the
windows inside the cell.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694902
Multiplication is linear, so we can split this out as a separate
component. This will make it easier to think of it as an additional
per-window scaling factor, rather than tweaking the scale a bit,
which is more correct to the model.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694902
While we won't tear down the entire strategy infrastructure, we want to
rework some layout code in the future, so just tear this piece out for
now.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694902
Using the scroll wheel to switch workspaces makes sense, but it is
currently only supported on the workspace switcher, as it conflicts
with window zooming in the picker.
As changing workspaces is far more useful than the zoom feature,
remove the latter in order to "free" the scroll wheel for workspace
switching.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686639
Right now we arrange the window thumbnails in a grid if there are more than two
rows of them. This was originally intended to reduce the amount of noise in the
thumbnail arrangement. It also made sense when the thumbnails were of a similar
size.
Nowadays we reflect the size of windows in the size of the thumbnail. This
leads to huge amounts of space between some windows when they are grid aligned.
Removing the grid alignment would also lead to larger thumbnails.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694210
Making them not fully opaque just makes them harder to see and there is no reason why the user should care whether the window is minimized or not when
switching to a window display them like any other windows.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693991
If WindowOverlay.relayout() is called without animation, we must stop
any preexisting animation, otherwise it will continue to run with the
previous parameters and cause the overlay to end up in the wrong position.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693970
The one we had before could make unmaximized windows appear to be bigger
than maximized ones, for a few reasons. Ensure that this doesn't happen
again, and add some comments to explain the whys and needs for twiddling
the individual thumbnail size.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686944
We clamp the overall layout's scale to WINDOW_CLONE_MAXIMUM_SCALE, but since
we do a bit of tweaking to try and make super small windows a tad larger, it's
theoretically possible that windows may become larger than the proper maximum
scale. Fix this issue.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686944
Add an style class targetting workspaces located outside the overview,
and use it for extra padding around the window clones. Padding is passed
down and applied inside LayoutStrategy, consolidating code that previously
handled the bottom side only.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690171
The current code parses the button-layout setting because MetaButtonLayout
was not usable from introspection. With that fixed, we can switch to
using meta_prefs_get_button_layout().
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=689263
After the first time the title was placed, we were setting its width,
thus forcing get_preferred_width() to return that as the minimum and
natural width.
To workaround that, explicitly reset the width to -1, -1, causing
StLabel->get_preferred_width() to be called, which would give us a meaningful
value for minimum and natural width.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688234
WindowOverlay was at times seeing bogus values reported as WindowClone
sizes. Fix that by storing and passing the value from the authoritative
source, that is, the LayoutStrategy.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688234
Since the introduction of overlay hover borders, there has a been
a timing disconnection between hiding the border and button, and
this creates noise and reduces the effect of the window+overlay
as a single unit.
Solve that by animating the close button too, so that the two actors
are shown and hidden always at the same time.
Also, consolidate the code to make it clear to future authors that
those two items need to stay coordinated.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688966
Windows in the overview should be highlighted when hovered, to indicate
they are an active target.
Based on a patch by Marc Plano-Lesay <marc.planolesay@gmail.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665310
When in the overview, if you move the mouse cursor over one of the
application launchers in the dash, all the unrelated windows are dimmed
both both in the window view and in the workspace view.
It helps to easily understand whether or not there are already opened
windows for this application, and where they are. It can also help in
differentiating the windows in the overview (sometimes the thumbnails
aren't precise enough to easily know which thumbnail belongs to which
application).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657315
Reposition the window overlay when the title changes, using the current
transformed size of the window clone.
Includes a test that changes title to a string of random length every 3 seconds.
Based on a patch by Alex Hultman <alexhultman@gmail.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620874
Change the layout strategy to be more like the mockups. With less than
two rows of windows, we try to fit every window in a non-aligned situation;
with more than three rows of windows, we try to fit every window in an
aligned situation.
Based heavily on a patch from Pierre-Eric Pelloux-Prayer <pelloux@gmail.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=582650
Right now, when entering the overview, we compute the window slots about
four or five times, from scratch each time. Move to a queued system where
extraneous calls to positionWindows don't matter.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=582650
We are replacing the gnome-screensaver module with with a screen shield
that is part of gnome-shell.
This patch fades out the screen on idle and shows a shield with a background
image when there is activity again. The shield can be removed with a key or
button press.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619955
Clear the ClutterClickAction state before starting the drag,
otherwise it will eat the first button event after the drag,
preventing a new drag from being started.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662386
If there's a single small window (e.g. empathy chat) in the overview, it
looks usable, because it's as big as outside of the overview, but when
you start to type, overview search is launched, which is confusing.
Fix that by setting maximum scale for window clones to 0.7
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646704
In overview when closing a window and afterwards dragging a window it can
happen that you pick a wrong window or no window if windows' positions is
updated while initiating the drag.
Fix that by delaying window rearrangement when cursor is over a window.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645325
The window overlays may be shown erroneously if hideOverlays is
called while the corresponding clone has an uncompleted tween which
calls showOverlays in its onComplete handler, for instance when
quickly leaving the overview before the initial overview animation
has finished. To fix, remove all existing tweens when hiding the
overlays.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666020
When in overview, window labels flicker or are temporarily hidden on a
number of occasions - when simply clicking around the area the windows
are displayed in, dragging a window, sliding in the workspace list,
adding new workspaces etc. This patch makes the label for any window
visible at any given moment when in overview and the said window is
not being dragged around.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644861
WorkspacesDisplay was introduced to manage the workspace objects
and views; however, the overview still accesses the view held
by the workspacesDisplay directly, which is a bit odd.
Add some additional methods needed by the overview, and make the
view a private property.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652580
The last patch in the sequence. Every place that was previously
setting prototype has been ported to Lang.Class, to make code more
concise and allow for better toString().
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664436
js2-mode is no longer developed and we recommend js-mode these days,
so switch the modelines to specify that, and make them consistent
across all files.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660358
Right-click menus in the dash can be dismissed by clicking anywhere
outside the menu. However, if a window clone is located beneath the
pointer when doing so, the window is activated and the overview
closed.
The cause of this unexpected behavior is that window previews are
activated on button-release, which is delivered to the preview after
the menu releases its grab on button-press. Use a ClutterClickAction
instead and let Clutter do the right thing, i.e. only trigger a
'clicked' signal when a button-release event is matched by a
corresponding button-press event.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661151
Commit e5bc3a2ba8 changed the hierarchy of WindowClone, which
broke activating windows on hover during xdnd operations. To
avoid intrusive changes, just hide the new actor from picks so
that DND operations pick the actor actually meant to represent
the corresponding window.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658640
Since almost all of the callers of shell_app_activate were using the
default workspace (by passing -1), remove that parameter.
Add a new shell_app_activate_full() API which takes a workspace as
well as a timestamp; previously we might have been ignoring event
timestamps from elsewhere.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648149
Commit 64b2b4a7d4 changed the monitor layout handling, resulting
in some layout errors due to a subtle change in memory handling:
when zooming a window in the overview, the available zoom area is
calculated by subtracting the panel height from the primary monitor
area. This area used to be a copy of the monitor rect, but as now
the rect itself is returned, zooming a window on the primary monitor
repeatedly modifies the monitor rect, leading to layout errors in
various parts of the shell.
Fix by using a copy when calculating the available zoom area.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654105
Remove ShellGlobal's monitor-related methods, and have
Main.layoutManager provide that information instead. Move
Main._relayout() to LayoutManager, and have other objects connect to
the layout manager's 'monitors-changed' signal to know when the screen
geometry has changed.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636963
Currently the user has to find an empty spot in the workspace
to be able to launcha new instance of an app using dnd.
This is unnecessary hard, so just allow dropping on windows too.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652079
Workspaces used to contain the desktop background, so when a
workspace was removed, we animated its actor to an off-screen
position before destroying it. As the background has been
removed a while ago, we can destroy the actor directly.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645031
The mouse-wheel zooming "easter egg" breaks horribly when you
drag a window, due to ugly lightbox reparenting tricks it uses.
For now, just end any zoom before we drag the window around.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649632
If a user is fast and mouses over a window while the workspace thumbnail
animations are playing, it can be frustrating when the close button won't
appear at the end of the animation.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645848
Don't do an individual hover fixup for every window overlay, instead
just use the new global.sync_hover() to fix up hovers once we have
finished showing the overview.
Based on a patch from Adel Gadllah <adel.gadllah@gmail.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638613
We create a Workspace with a null metaWorkspace for each
non-primary monitor, showing the windows on these monitors.
These are saved in WorkspaceView.extraWorkspaces.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=609258
This means a bunch of windows will not be visible at all in the overview.
Those will be added back with per-screen workspaces on the non-primary
monitors.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=609258
