Performance testing was producing inconsistent values at different
times in the day since the GNOME default background is animated and
sometimes has a single layer, and sometimes two blended layers.
So we have consistent numbers, install a simple animated background
with GNOME Shell that has 40-year long transition ending in 2030,a
and set an environment variable in gnome-shell-perf-tool so that the
background is override with that background. (The background depends
on files installed by gnome-backgrounds; we assume that the person
running performance tests is doing so within the scope of a full
GNOME install.)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734610
Add a --hwtest option to gnome-shell-perf-helper which runs the
tests in perf/hwtest.js with the appropriate environment, and then
logs the results using the 'gnome-hwtest-log' utility which is
available in the hardware testing environent.
(For development of hwtest.js in a normal environment, run the tests
as: gnome-shell-perf-tool --perf=hwtest --extra-filter=Gedit)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732350
Currently running the perf tool results into no wm running
afterwards making it hard for the user to get the results from a terminal
and generally does not make it easy for users to run it to gather numbers.
So restore the shell after the test has completed.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724870
* Fix wrong parameter name to on_name_appeared callbacks
* optparse doesn't just leave extra command line arguments, it
errors out, so don't try to pass through extra arguments -
instead add explicit passthrough for '--replace'
* Fix usage of Gio.DBusProxy
* Add a default value for --perf so that if it's not supplied
things don't die with a mysterious error message. (This wasn't
needed when --perf enabled perf-mode)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687287
Introduce a new gnome-shell-perf-tool, which can be used instead
of the old gnome-shell-jhbuild wrapper to gather data about gnome-shell
performance and submit to shell-perf.gnome.org. This runs the
shell with no extra setup beyond the WM_CLASS filter, so it can
be used for a jhbuild setup or for an installed shell.
