When transitioning to or from the overview, windows travel
a certain distance between their real desktop position and
their place in the overview window grid. The less this travel
distance is, the smoother, more polished, and less jarring
the overall transition looks. This is why it makes sense to
try reordering and repositioning windows to minimize their
travel distance. That being said, there are other factors
that impact the quality of the overview layout, such as how
much the windows get scaled and what portion of the overall
available space they take up.
The existing code tries to minimize the travel distance by
sorting the windows in each row by their horizontal position.
There are, however, two problems with this implementation.
First, it compares the coordinates of windows' left edges as
opposed to their centers, which means it yields unexpected
results when a small window is positioned next to the left
edge of a large window. Second, it completely disregards
vertical coordinates, instead assigning windows to the grid
rows using their monotonically increasing window numbers,
effectively vertically sorting them by the order they were
created in.
This commit changes both vertical and horizontal ordering
to work based on the coordinates of the geometric centers
of the windows. That is to say, windows are first assigned
to grid rows based on the vertical coordinates of their
centers, and subsequently sorted inside each row based on
the horizontal coordinates of said centers. In my testing,
this leads to a much more intuitive and visually pleasing
window placement.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Bugaev <bugaevc@gmail.com>
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/267
We now have everything in place to replace Tweener for all animatable
properties with implicit animations, which has the following benefits:
- they run entirely in C, while Tweener requires context switches
to JS each frame
- they are more reliable, as Tweener only detects when an animation
is overwritten with another Tween, while Clutter considers any
property change
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/22
The different units - seconds for Tweener and milliseconds for
timeouts - are not a big issue currently, as there is little
overlap. However this will change when we start using Clutter's
own animation framework (which uses milliseconds as well), in
particular where constants are shared between modules.
In order to prepare for the transition, define all animation times
as milliseconds and adjust them when passing them to Tweener.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/663
While we aren't using those destructured variables, they are still useful
to document the meaning of those elements. We don't want eslint to keep
warning about them though, so mark them accordingly.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/627
Those unused arguments aren't bugs - unbeknownst to eslint, they all
correspond to valid signal parameters - but they don't contribute
anything to clarity, so just remove them anyway.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/627
Window previews are sometimes shown translucent, for example during
drags or animations. They can also have attached dialogs, in which
case the opacity should affect the combination of all windows instead
of being applied to each window individually, blended together, so
make sure they are redirected as a whole when necessary.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/774
Braces are optional for single-line arrow functions, but there's a
subtle difference:
Without braces, the expression is implicitly used as return value; with
braces, the function returns nothing unless there's an explicit return.
We currently reflect that in our style by only omitting braces when the
function is expected to have a return value, but that's not very obvious,
not an important differentiation to make, and not easy to express in an
automatic rule.
So just omit braces consistently as mandated by gjs' coding style.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/608
While we have some style inconsistencies - mostly regarding split lines,
i.e. aligning to the first arguments vs. a four-space indent - there are
a couple of places where the spacing is simply wrong. Fix those.
Spotted by eslint.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/608
We can use that newer method where we don't care about the actual position
of an element inside the array.
(Array.includes() and Array.indexOf() do behave differently in edge cases,
for example in the handling of NaN, but those don't matter to us)
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/152
Since version 1.50.0, gjs defines GObject.NotImplementedError for throwing
errors when a "virtual" method that requires a subclass implementation is not
defined.
So use this instead of a generic JS Error in such cases.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/549
Since the overlays we show on hover above the window clones are no
longer only a close button, but the window title, a border and a close
button, rename a few variables so it's easier to understand what they're
for.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/346
ES6 finally adds standard class syntax to the language, so we can
replace our custom Lang.Class framework with the new syntax. Any
classes that inherit from GObject will need special treatment,
so limit the port to regular javascript classes for now.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/361
When we started to only show a single caption at a time, we allowed
title captions to be wider than their corresponding window preview.
But while overlapping neighboring previews is fine, we shouldn't
allow the captions to leak outside the workspace area itself and
overlap unrelated elements like workspace switcher or dash.
This partly reverts commit b3b30f239d.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/214
When trying to close a window in the overview by clicking the close
button and the window doesn't get closed but a dialog is added to the
window afterwards, we close the overview and show the dialog.
Instead of adding a separate listener for the window-added signal to the
WindowOverlay, let the WindowClones remember that the close button was
pressed and activate themselves if a dialog is added after that.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/180
When a dialog is added to a window while the overview is shown, we get
its parent using get_transient_for() so we can add it to the right
window clone.
If we have multiple layers of dialogs we have to do this recursively
until we find the root ancestor. This case currently results in an
infinite loop: Since parent is always set to the same window, the
while-condition will always be true.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/180
If a clone gets destroyed before the corresponding MetaWindow is
removed from the workspace, we will still find it in the list of
clones and try to destroy it again. Avoid the resulting warnings
by updating the list of clones immediately when a clone is destroyed.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=791233
Remove any usage of MetaScreen, as it has been removed from libmutter
in the API version 3. The corresponding functionality has been moved
into three different places: MetaDisplay, MetaX11Display (for X11
specific functionality) and MetaWorkspaceManager.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759538
Just like we did for the window list in app icons' context menu,
provide a fallback for window captions in the window picker rather
than showing blank items to the user.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/26
Since commit 1939e22c22, we move the keyboard focus with the hover
highlight. However while this makes sense when interacting with
the window picker, it interferes with keyboard navigation of other
components like dash or top bar. Address this by only moving the
focus when the previous focus was already inside the window picker
or unset.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/50
When not using arrow notation with anonymous functions, we use Lang.bind()
to bind `this` to named callbacks. However since ES5, this functionality
is already provided by Function.prototype.bind() - in fact, Lang.bind()
itself uses it when no extra arguments are specified. Just use the built-in
function directly where possible, and use arrow notation in the few places
where we pass additional arguments.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/23
We don't use different hover- and focus indications for window previews,
so using keyboard navigation after hovering a clone often has surprising
results when the previous focus window wasn't the selected one. Address
this by simply moving the keyboard focus with the highlight.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786546
By default the focus chain uses the same order as the list returned
by clutter_actor_get_children(), which corresponds to the z-order.
This doesn't work well in the window picker, where clones follow
the stacking of windows to ensure a correct overview transition,
but previews are laid out purely based on space efficiency. As
a result, the order in which window previews are navigated when
tabbing around is essentially random. Fix this by providing a
focus chain implementation that is based on the visual layout
of the previews rather than the stacking.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786546
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
