The new plans for a row of workspace thumbnails on the right side of the
overview means that the mental model we present to the user will be
vertical, so switch the Metacity workspace layout to be vertical and
adjust the keybinding handling, animations, and workspace layout in
the overview to match.
(This commit does not change the workspace switching indicator pending
finalization of what we want to do with that - it still shows workspaces
arranged vertically.)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640996
Right now popModal() passes global.get_current_time() for
its begin_modal() call. global.get_current_time() is the
timestamp of the last gdk or clutter event processed by the
shell's mutter process. These values could potentially be
be too stale to use if pushModal() were to get called in
response to an event by another process.
This commit changes pushModal() to have an optional timestamp
argument, which can be used to associate the call with the
event that initiated it.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=637187
Add Util.spawn, Util.spawnCommandLine, and Util.spawnDesktop for
spawning a command/argv/.desktop file in the background, automatically
handling errors via MessageTray.SystemNotificationSource(), and
Util.trySpawn, Util.trySpawnCommandLine, and Utils.trySpawnDesktop
that don't do automatic error handling (but do at least clean up the
error message in the exception a bit).
Update various other bits of code around the shell to use the new
methods.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635089
Although certain keys (like Ctrl-Alt-Tab and Alt-F2) should work in
the overview, we generally don't want them to work from inside each
others grabs. In particular, typing Left or Right from inside
Ctrl-Alt-Tab should navigate among focus groups, not switch
workspaces.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636971
Also, change _globalKeyPressHandler to handle KEY_PRESS, not
KEY_RELEASE, for consistency with other code (and so that the
combination of an Alt-F1 press and release doesn't first enter the
overview and then immediately exit it).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636371
The gnome-panel allows the user to hover over a tasklist entry
while draging to activate a minimized or obscured window and drop onto it.
Implement a similar behaviour by allowing draging to the activities button or
the hotcorner (and thus opening the overview), which allows the user to
activate any window (even on different workspaces) as a drop target.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=601731
Until recently, the clutter keyboard focus was almost always kept on
the stage, and bits of code that wanted to do stuff with the keyboard
would just watch for key-press-events on the stage. In several places,
the code wasn't even bothering to ensure that the focus was on the
stage, which caused problems with other actors that explicitly grabbed
focus.
A previous fix for this (f21403fd) was to always reset the focus to
the stage after calling pushModal(), but a better fix is to just
actually make use of the keyboard focus everywhere rather than having
everyone try to read events off the stage.
Now pushModal(actor) also does actor.grab_key_focus(), and various
bits of code have been changed to read key events off their own
toplevels rather than off the stage, meaning there's no chance of them
accidentally getting someone else's events.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618885
The code to draw the root background has now been moved into Mutter,
with added smarts to not draw obscured portions. Remove the old
version of the code and clone the Mutter background actor to draw
the background in the overview.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=634836
This way the new modal level is independent of whatever may have been
happening before. Fixes a problem with status menus becoming active
again from inside the app switcher, etc.
MutterWindow and MutterPlugin have been renamed to MetaWindowActor
and MetaPlugin, mutter_plugin_list_windows() to
meta_plugin_list_window_actors(). Adapt to those changes.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632500
Introduce the Universal Access status indicator as designed, modeled
after the similar UI provided by g-s-d. This indicator allows the user
to change rapidly the keyboard and mouse behaviour (sticky keys, slow
keys, bounce keys, mouse keys), as well as the enabled ATs (magnifier,
screen reader, screen keyboard) and the HighContrast Gtk theme.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624916
Use GSettings for all Shell configuration. GConf is kept to read
configuration from external programs (Metacity, Nautilus and Magnifier),
but ShellGConf is removed because it's mostly useless for the few calls
we still have. Also get rid of unused GConf code in ShellAppSystem.
A basic GConf schema is still used to override Metacity defaults and
configure Magnifier in a system-wide fashion. GConf is also used as
GSettings backend via the GSETTINGS_BACKEND environment variable.
All of this will be removed when these programs have been ported
to GSettings and able to use dconf.
GLib 2.25.9 is required. Schemas are converted to the new XML format,
and compiled at build time in data/ so that the Shell can be run from
the source tree. This also requires setting the GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR
environment variable both when running installed or from source tree,
in src/gnome-shell.in and src/gnome-shell-clock-preferences.in.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617917
Currently we only relayout when the screen size changes, this gets
the cases where a monitor gets added/removed but not when the primary
monitor changes.
We need to relayout on all monitor layout changes.
Remove ShellGlobal::screen-size-changed signal as it is no longer used, Gdk is
used to track changes now.
A ShellGlobal::gdk-screen property is added for this purpose.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620377
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
The ShellGlobal initialization performs several actions like connecting
to the X server, ensuring directories exist, etc., that are problematic
because we were creating the object even when running the binary for
introspection scanning. During compilation we may not even have X11
available in e.g. autobuilder type environments, and it's just a
bad idea to connect even if we do.
Avoid this by deferring creation of the ShellGlobal object
until the plugin is actually started.
Now that we're initializing things later, remove the connection to
screen changes, and initialize cached ShellGlobal state at the point
when the plugin is set. The root pixmap actor is now sized initially
on creation too. Instead of relying on screen-size-changed being
emitted on startup, explicitly invoke _relayout().
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618371
This is our convention.
The only exceptions are double quotes for words in comments that give
them a special meaning (though beware that these quotes are not truly
necessary most of the time) and double quotes that need to be a part
of the output string.
Adds the ability to create one or more zoom regions that show magnified or
enhanced views of the desktop. The magnifier provides options for:
* magnification factor,
* four mouse tracking modes common to screen magnifiers,
* positioning the magnified view in one of four screen location, or full screen,
* crosshairs to accentuate the position of the mouse,
* user preferences persistence via GConf (schemas in
.../data/gnome-shell.schemas).
* a DBus API to allow other processes to drive the magnifier as a service.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595507
In preparation for adding magnification, "uiGroup.patch", organizes the stage
along the following lines:
Stage
*Magnifier
UI group
Window group
Chrome group
Overlay group
Alt tab
App display
Chrome
...
This allows a magnifier actor to clone and magnify the UI group. The magnifier
is a sibling of the UI Group in this stage oraganization -- see the next patch,
"Magnifier.patch".
Inform the user about demands attention events using the messagetray.
Clicking on the notification icon moves the user to the window.
It differentiates between newly started apps and windows of already running apps, by showing different banners for this cases.
It is based on Jon Nettleton's "window attention" extension.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610594
This way, clicking a message tray icon while the overview is open will
close the overview when activating its window.
Remove some other overview-related activation code which is now
redundant.
Also, remove calls to "global.get_current_time()" when calling
Main.activateWindow, since it's unnecessary (activateWindow will call
it itself if you don't pass in that arg).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=609765
As desktop icons don't have any purpose in the overview (except for
distracting the user), fade them out when entering the overview.
Unfortunately, the fading effect affects performance, therefore hide
icons directly when there are maximized windows on the desktop.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600999
Currently the window-added and window-removed callbacks in
main.js:_onWorkspaceSwitched access the first parameter as metaWindow object,
but in fact the first one passed is the workspace (metaWorkspace).
Fix it by using the second parameter instead (which is a metaWindow object).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=609521
Make the framerate, file extension and gstreamer pipeline used by the
screencast recorder configureable using gconf.
This patch does not change the defaults, it justs provides a way for
the user to override them.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=608995
Added signal 'screen-size-changed' to ShellGlobal.
Connect to this signal in main.js and run the _relayout() method.
If Overview or calendar are visible when this signal emit, they will be hiding.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584526
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
Previously we had various things watching for notify::mapped so
we could be more lazy about updating non-visible actors, but it
was fairly ad-hoc.
The deferred work system unifies these callbacks, and also adds
a timeout so that we don't delay changes arbitrarily; this way we
avoid a storm of work if you stay out of the overview for a while,
then go in.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603522
Places is one of the dash sections and it should be included in search results.
Factor out the code for getting and updating the information about places from
Places to PlacesManager.
Introduce PlaceInfo class that contains information about the place and can be
used by classes that display it in different ways. Rename classes so that their
names are consistent with corresponding classes in appDisplay.js and
docDisplay.js
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599125
The two parts were mapping windows to applications, and
recording application usage statistics. The latter part
(now called ShellAppUsage) is much more naturally built on top of
the former (now called ShellWindowTracker).
ShellWindowTracker retains the startup-notification handling.
ShellWindowTracker also gains a focus-app property, which is
what most things in the shell UI are interested in (instead of
window focus).
ShellAppSystem moves to exporting ShellApp from more of its
public API, rather than ShellAppInfo. ShellAppSystem also
ensures that ShellApp instances are unique by holding
a hash on the ids.
ShellApp's private API is split off into a shell-app-private.h,
so shell-app.h can be included in shell-app-system.h.
Favorites handling is removed from ShellAppSystem, now inside
appFavorites.js.
Port all of the JavaScript for these changes.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598646
When we get a ClutterModifierType from Clutter, it might contain
bits not in the enumeration. See bug 59771 for a similar problem
with GdkModifierType.
Add a wrapper Shell.get_event_state() around clutter_event_get_state()
to mask these bits out and only return approved bits.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597735
ShellTheme replaces both StStyle and ccss_stylesheet_t.
The interface StStylable is replaced by usage of ShellThemeNode.
A concrete node class allows some significant optimizations of property
inheritance that would have been much more difficult to achieve with
the highly abstract pair of StStylable and ccss_node_t.
Some operations that were previously on StStylable (like the
::style-changed signal) are directly on NtkWidget.
Custom properties are no longer registered as param-specs; instead you
call directly into shell theme node to look up a length or color:
shell_theme_node_get_length (theme_node, "border-spacing", FALSE, &spacing);
The dependency on libccss is dropped, while preserving all existing
functionality and adding proper parsing and inheritance of font properties
and proper inheritance for the 'color' property.
Some more javascript tests for CSS functionality are added; workarounds for
a CSS bug where *.some-class was needed instead of .some-class are removed.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595990
Install and distribute gnome-shell.css and theme images. They are moved
down from $datadir to $datadir/theme to avoid a weirdness where we have
images in $datadir and then also in $datadir/images.
(Also moved in the source tree to avoid adding another difference between
installed and uninstalled operation.)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595989
js/ui/environment.js: Split out initial UI setup (Tweener initialization,
ClutterContainer monkey-patching) into a separate file we can import from tests.
tests/: Directory for various types of tests
tests/run-test.sh: Shell script that to run tests with an appropriate
environment set up.
tests/testcommon/: Common modules and data for tests
tests/interactive/: Interactive tests
tests/interactive/box-layout.js: A sample test of StLayout
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595987
Setting options for children added to StBoxLayout is not convenient
since we are missing the varargs methods of clutter_container.
Patch in:
child_set() - set properties of a child
add() - add a child and set properties (this is different from
clutter_container_add()! I think the deviation is
with avoiding the awkward name add_with_properties()
which is what might be expected. ClutterContainer
currently doesn't have a method like this at all.)
The code is written to allow patching into multiple ClutterContainer
classes but for now only StBoxLayout is patched, since it's the only
container we are using where we need to set options as properties.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595419
Fix panel, app switcher, and looking glass to limit themselves to the
primary monitor, and run dialog to limit itself to the monitor
containing the currently-focused window.
The overview is also limited to the primary monitor now (with the
other monitors being blacked out), although the workspaces within the
overview are shaped like the full "screen" (the bounding box of all
monitors). To be fixed later.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593060
This fixes a regression where we weren't using the correct event
timestamps, because for both of these we were sending an XClientMessage
to ourself.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596262
For various reasons I'd like a method which allows evaluation; say
log in from another machine and run "gnome-shell --repl" or something.
Also as a possible solution for the screensaver X grab issue, add
a (read/write) property "OverviewActive".
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596102
This isn't a long-term solution; what we really want is for Alt-F2 to
just be an application search with a hack to detect shell commands,
but in the short term this allows us to run the magic 'lg' command
from the overview.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595116
Rename beginModal/endModal to pushModal/popModal. All of the current callers
just want to ensure that we're in a modal state; they don't actually need to
fail if we already are.
These functions also now take the Clutter keyboard focus, while recording
the previous focus.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595116
Before Clutter gained accessors for event information, we had
shell_global_ functions. Now that Clutter has them, use them and
delete the ShellGlobal code.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594561
When we are modal, examine keypresses and look for:
- 'Print': Run the screenshot command in any mode; very useful for
bug filing, reviews, etc.
- Release of Super_L/Super_R - if in the overview, toggle back
out of the overview.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593427
We now have functionality in Mutter to grab the keyboard on behalf
of a plugin. This avoids interactions with the key handling code
in Mutter that could leave the user with an inconsistent state
and no way to get out of it.
src/shell-global.[ch]: Change shell_global_grab_keyboard() and
shell_global_grab_keyboard() to shell_global_begin_modal()
shell_global_end_modal() and call mutter_plugin_begin_modal()
mutter_plugin_end_modal() rather than directly grabbing the
keyboard.
main.js: Call global.begin_modal/end_modal from Main.startModal()
and Main.endModal()
altTab.js; Remove call to Main.startModal() - we're letting Mutter
handle modality for Alt-Tab.
main.js lookingGlass.js overview.js runDialog.js: Rename
Main.startModal() to Main.beginModal() for consistency with
naming in mutter and ShellGlobal.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=590686
Currently ShellAppMonitor relies on all the .desktop files being
loaded. We should initialize it very early to ensure that anything
that uses it has up-to-date information right away.
There was lots of fixed positioning in the Panel; now it is completely
dynamic, and width/height is driven from main.js. We still have a
global constant Panel.PANEL_HEIGHT, but this is a big step towards
eliminating it.
Also, this avoids overdraw in the "way too many tray icons" case. The
clock will shift left.
Replace 'overlay' with the more descriptive name 'overview'
where the Activities Overview is meant. Call it Overview
(capitalized) in code comments.
The overlay-group and overlay-key provided by Mutter are not
affected, since they may be used for other components than
the Activities Overview.
Move the GStreamer initialization from the Javascript code into
shell_recorder_init(). This avoids a dependency on the GStreamer
introspection information and will make it easier to drop the
gir-repository module dependency.
Add a dropdown pane triggered by Alt-F2, "lg" which supports interactive
JavaScript evaluation, saving/restoring a history file, as well as
an inspector element to pick by using the mouse.
Using an internal boolean rather than the visibility property seems
more reliable to me. Add a list of internal functions rather than
an if/else chain, so for example an extension could hook something on.
Delete the javascript evaluator in favor of the upcoming lookingGlass.js.
Adds an explicit "chrome" layer for the panel (and later the sidebar),
managing the input region and struts for them, and hiding them when
fullscreen windows are present or the user enters the overlay.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581771
Rather than having main.js manage this, put it into overlay.js, and
have the overlay object emit signals that other code can watch to do
things when the overlay is showing/shown/hiding/hidden.
Try to fix all places where we accidentally used foo_bar instead
of fooBar for function names, function parameters, and variables.
(Lucas Rocha pointed out one example.)
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581141
Do a better job at describe the problems in docDisplay.js related
to not reading the desktop files and finding StartupNotify=true.
Also, fix a typo.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580658
main.js: Add create_app_launch_context() with code from appDisplay;
additionally set the workspace on the launch context to the current
workspace so that the application launches on the right workspace
even if the user switches before the app starts.
appDisplay.js docDisplay.js: Use Main.create_app_launch_context()
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580658 (Reported by Igor Vatavuk)
Now code can call Main.addShellActor(actor) to declare that that actor
is part of the shell, and so it should (a) be protected by wm struts, and
(b) be part of the stage input area, and then that code automatically
deals with updating if the actor changes size or visibility.
The panel show/hide changes broke things if window restacking occurred
while the overlay was active. Now instead of having the panel set the
input area itself, main.js just watches whether or not the panel is
visible, and updates things itself (taking the modal state into
account as well).
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576903
Because we can't set the stage input area to a non-rectangular shape,
we don't allow the panel to be partially overlapped; it is always either
on top, or else completely hidden.
For development and demonstration purposes, it's neat to be able to
record a screencast of gnome-shell without any external setup.
Built-in recording can also give much better quality than is possible
with a generic desktop recording, since we hook right into the paint
loop.
src/shell-recorder.[ch]: A general-purposes object to record a Clutter
stage to a GStreamer stream.
src/shell-recorder-src.[ch]: A simple GStreamer source element (similar
to appsrc in the most recent versions of GStreamer) for injecting
captured data into a GStreamer pipeline.
src/test-recorder.c: Test program that records a simple animation.
configure.ac src/Makefile.am: Add machinery to conditionally build
ShellRecorder.
tools/build/gnome-shell-build-setup.sh: Add gstreamer packages
to the list of required packages for Fedora.
js/ui/main.js: Hook up the recorder to a MetaScreen ::toggle-recording
keybinding.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=575290
mutter_plugin_get_windows() returns NULL at plugin-initialization time,
so we have to wait until idle time to figure out which workspaces are
being used and remove the unused ones.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571091
Automatically removes tweens on destroyed actors, and provides
additional "animation started/stopped" callbacks (eg, for tracking
whether or not to show window clone titles)
main.js: set desktop environment to "GNOME" so that GIO can determine correctly which applications should be shown in the menus.
appDisplay.js: filter out applications that should not be shown in the menus, check if get_executable() for GAppInfo is not null before using it
svn path=/trunk/; revision=163
Now that getTime() has been added to the frame ticker interface
we can implement frame dropping in a more straightforward way
than adjusting the FRAME_RATE member variable to fool Tweener
into doing the right thing.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=156
This is implemented as a separate process, since creating and running
toplevel windows from inside Metacity has issues.
We now grab a DBus name, and exec the child process. The child monitors
our name to know when to exit.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=153
This was likely a different bug, possibly the OOM after a period of time.
It seems reliable for me now without the idle.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=140
Revert most JS changes in commit:
Fri Nov 28 20:12:20 2008 +0000
Convert all JS style to be uniform, add Eclipse settings bits
Instead, just add 'indent-tabs-mode: nil' to the mode lines and convert
tabs to spaces. The indentation no longer exactly matches the Eclipse
settings, since they differ in some ways from the style we are trying
to achieve.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=97
Previous style was all over the place; this commit attempts to bring
uniformity. Overall, the style is:
* 4 spaces only, no tabs
* Prototypes do not create a new block
* Constructor property continuations only indent one block
svn path=/trunk/; revision=87
shell-global.[ch]: Replace shell_global_focus_stage()
with shell_global_grab_keyboard()/shell_global_ungrab_keyboard()
main.js: Add startModal()/endModal() functions to go modal and
undo that.
run_dialog.js overlay.js main.js: Use startModal() for the overlay
and for the run dialog.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561880
svn path=/trunk/; revision=83
Call Tweener.setFrameTicker() with a custom object that bridges to
ClutterTimeline to get new frame notifications. Combined with a
hack to dynamically adjust the frame ticker's frame rate when
Clutter drops frames, this means that our animations play in the
intended time even if rendering is too slow to maintain a full
60HZ frame rate.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561745
svn path=/trunk/; revision=79
Add a new clutter-based "Run Dialog" and trigger that off of Alt-F2
instead of running a gnome-terminal instance.
Patch from Sander Dijkhuis.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=64
When the user clicks on "Activities", adjust the input shape
to the whole screen and show a black overlay group. Actually, the
black should be *beneath* the window actors and the overlay group
transparent so we can fade in the black while leaving the windows
unfaded, visible, but shrunk and rearranged.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=14
Set a less strange background color than white and remove the
"Yessir. The compositor is running" message from the overlay.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=13
Add a top panel with a label "Activities" you can click on and
a HH:MM:SS clock. (A little more and we'll be caught up to gnome-0.9.)
svn path=/trunk/; revision=10
A plugin for metacity-clutter (mutter) that initializes Javascript
and via Javascript adds an object to the mutter scene graph.
src/gnome-shell-plugin.c: metacity-clutter-plugin
src/shell-global.[ch]: Simple global-information object
js/: Directory for javascript
scripts/start-in-Xephyr: Launch metacity with our plugin
"nested" within an Xephy X server
svn path=/trunk/; revision=2
