Add a command line option to upload the generated performance report
to a web service. The options for the upload (url, system name, secret
key) are read from ~/.config/gnome-shell/perf.ini.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618189
Switch from having separate METRICS and METRIC_DESCRIPTIONS objects
in a perf module to a single METRICS array. This is done so the
perf module can define the units for each metric.
In addition to improving the output in the web interface, the purpose
of having units is to give some clue about how to pick from multiple
values from different runs. In particular, with the assumption that
"noise" on the system will increase run times, for time values we want
to pick the smallest values, while for "rate" values, we want to pick
the largest value.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618189
Add --perf-output=<filename> option to gnome-shell that combines
the reports written for each run by the C/Javascript code into
a complete report.
If this option is not specified, a brief human-readable summary
is printed to stdout instead.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618189
When SHELL_PERF_OUTPUT is set, instead of just dumping out the metrics, dump
a more complete report with:
- Event descriptions
- Metric descriptions and value
- Event log
Helper functions shell_perf_log_dump_events() and shell_perf_log_dump_log()
are added to ShellPerfLog to support this. The gnome-shell wrapper is adapted
to deal with the changed report format.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618189
Add gnome-shell options:
--perf-iters=ITERS"
Numbers of iterations of performance module to run
--perf-warmup
Run a dry run before performance tests
Make a successful run of a performance test return 0 not non-zero,
and handle the difference between that and a 0-exit in normal
usage (meaning replaced) in the wrapper.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618189
Move the code that starts gnome-shell and waits for it to exit
to a function in preparation for running it multiple times when
doing iterations of a performance test.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618189
We want to be able to summarize the behavior of the shell's
performance in a series of "metrics", like the latency between
clicking on the Activities button and seeing a response.
This patch adds the ability to create a script under perf/
in a special format that automates a series of actions in the
shell, writing events to the performance log, then collects
statistics as the log as replayed and turns them into a set
of metrics.
The script is then executed by running as gnome-shell
--perf=<script>.
The 'core' script which is added here will be the primary
performance measurement script that we use for shell performance
regression testing; right now it has a couple of placeholder
metrics.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618189
readlink() on /proc/<pid>/exe can have results like:
/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon.#prelink#.5DFZsF (deleted)
/usr/bin/gnome-session (deleted)
To find gnome-session in a more robust way, read /proc/<pid>/cmdline
instead.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616706
While the extension system already uses an XDG location (XDG_CONFIG_HOME),
other components use the deprecated $HOME/.gnome2 directory.
Replace both with XDG_DATA_HOME - the existing data (app usage stats,
looking glass history and extensions) is not migrated to the new location.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617555
Change "./src/gnome-shell --create-extension" to use "gnome-open"
when opening the newly created .js file, so that it is launched
with the user's preferred text editor, instead of hardcoding gedit.
Consumer documentation will live at http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Extensions
In terms of implementation; basically we load extensions from the well-known
directories. Add a GConf key to disable extensions by uuid. There is a new
option --create-extension for the gnome-shell script which takes a bit of
interactive input, sets up some sample files, and launches gedit.
No extensions UI in this patch; that will come later.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599661
If start_shell() threw an exception before, we'd overwrite it with
an exception in the finally() clause. Handle this and just print a message
and let the exception propagate.
On OpenSolaris /usr/bin/python is 2.4; use AM_PATH_PYTHON to find
a newer Python. (The PYTHON environment variable can also be set
before running configure to override the search.)
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=578196
gnome-shell.in: Remove the code to replace gnome-panel by attaching
to it with GDB; this was always problematical (required gdb, debug
symbols, finding the pid of gnome-panel, etc.)
gnome-shell-build-setup.sh: Require 2.26 to be in place before building
the shell; remove gdb from the list of required packages.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593325
Instead of starting Xephyr automatically, require --xephyr to be
passed explicitly.
This makes the operation easier to understand and has the benefit
of allowing running in Xephyr mode when some other window manager
(like gnome-shell!) is running. We also want to emphasize that
Xephyr is a development tool, and not a good preview of the
user-interface.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592881
If Mutter exits with an exit status of 0, then that most likely
means that it was replaced by another window manager and we shoudln't
try to start the previous window manager and the panel.
(We don't actually know about the panel, but assume that if someone
is replacing us they know what they are doing.)
When Mutter exits with a signal, we know we want to restart.
When Mutter exits with a non-signal non-zero exit status, it's
ambiguous - we could be exiting because we lost the connection to
the X server, or because of a assertion failure in gnome-shell.
We assume the latter; if the X server is gone, all that will happen
is a bit of noise.
To know why Mutter exited accurately, we always wait() and
kill() the Mutter process, and then, if running in Xephyr, clean up
Xephyr afterwards. This has the nice side effect of exiting when
gnome-shell does and not forcing the user to close Xephyr manually.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591171
When exiting from --replace mode, we want to start the new
gnome-panel with a reasonable working directory so that if, you say,
open a terminal from it it doesn't start off in the gnome-shell
directory.
(gnome-shell itself is running in $HOME because mutter changes
directory itself at startup.)
Reported by Mathieu Bridon
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591145
Avoid depending on gdb for replacing an existing panel, since it
requires debuginfo and gdb installed.
Instead we grab the org.gnome.Panel DBus name, using DBus name
replacement semantics.
Recent gjs changes have made it log most types of messages (including
log() calls) only to a configured log file and not to stderr. So,
set GJS_DEBUG_OUTPUT=stderr to make *stderr* the log file and get
our log() calls back.
Unless we're running gnome-shell from the source directory, we shouldn't
use the .la file as the mutter plugin. Instead, we use the dynamic
library.
Closes: bgo#581327
If Xephyr isn't installed currently src/gnome-shell raises
an exception which isn't at all obvious without looking at
the source. This commit catches the exception and replaces
it with a more informative error message.
