Commit 5d00c1a5ee moved app folder popups to GrabHelper - for some
reason, the line that ensures the current behavior of only considering
events inside the app picker to dismiss popups got lost ...
As clicks outside the app picker should still be handled normally
while clicks inside should dismiss the popup, we cannot make full
use of GrabHelper. However using it at least for focus handling
fixes some minor details we are getting wrong, for instance not
restoring the previous focus after dismissing a folder popup.
Currently, our logic for page panning isn't great. If the user starts a
pan upwards and hesitates over a new page, we'll go to the *next* page
on release, since the difference is greater, but the velocity wound down
to 0.
Instead of trying to treat it like page down or scrolls, simply do the
math to find the page where the user scrolled to.
This is unfortunately broken for fast swipes, since the user doesn't get
far enough into the new page to make a difference. I'm getting the
impression we'll need a gesture recognizer for this, though, however
crude. Simple hacks I tried, like a velocity multiplier, didn't work
properly.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729064
We often call goToPage like:
this.goToPage(this._currentPage - 1);
(or + 1). During panning, these are based on the velocity values
of the gesture action. If we're already on the first or last page
and the panning ends, it's possible to get goToPage that's either
-1 or greater than the last page.
During normal usage, this isn't a problem, since the Y values will
be correct, always. But when panning, the Y values stick to the
finger, and thus if we return early, we won't snap to the exact page,
making it seem like things get "stuck".
Fix this the simple way by clamping to the correctly-ranged values
of pageNumber
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729064
Folders use a 2x2 grid of the first 4 app icons as icon - if a folder
contains less apps, we currently skip the corresponding grid positions.
As a result, the overall size request may be smaller than the one for
other icons, making the folder icon look out of place.
Fix this by always using a full grid as folder icon, using dummy actors
as necessary.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726322
With the switch to a table layout in commit f959cafb36, setting
alignments to place the individual icons at the outer edge of the grid
stopped working. Remove that code and add some explicit spacing instead.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=726323
Add more time to the fade in/out animation when switching
views so they don't switch abruptly and add a delay
between view switch animations to avoid morphing.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722331
The current middle-click action of opening a new window on a new
workspace is a bit peculiar; it is also not overly hard to achieve
the same result by moving a new window to the desired workspace or
selecting a workspace before opening a new window. Just opening
a new window is also a more common action, so having a shortcut
available that doesn't require a modifier is a good idea as well;
change the middle-click behavior accordingly.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695010
Having terminal launchers behave differently than any other launchers
is non-obvious and confusing. Remove the special-casing to restore
consistency, we will make the new window action more accessible
instead.
This reverts commit 68faba6bde, 4ed0f3e5f0
and 887a21afb9.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695010
If the user mostly uses the All Apps view and uses it as his default view,
we shouldn't reload frequent data after a timeout. Simply do it when the
view is mapped.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723179
get_categories() returns an unparsed string, not a list of categories.
We need to parse the list by splitting on ';' to deterine whether the
actual 'TerminalEmulator' category is in the list, rather than something
like 'X-GNOME-TerminalEmulator'. It's an edge case, but I need to split
the list properly for the new folders, so I might as well fix this.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723179
Using the new list_actions() API in Gio, add entries for static
actions specified in .desktop files in the right-click app menus,
in the dash, app well and search.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669603
Rather than GMenu / app-folder-categories. This removes our last use of
gnome-menus in the stock gnome-shell, which is exciting, but also means
that app folders in Software start working.
Ideally, we'd have a button to launch our Software app as well from the
overview.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722117
Instead of having _compareItems, _getItemId, etc. on the view to
pull out info about items, use the AppIcon / FolderIcon items we
create as a place to track this additional info. We now require
that these items have a '.id' property for deduplication, and a
'.name' property to sort by.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722117
One of the most frequent complaints about our launching behaviour is
how we handle terminals. Among all MDI applications, the terminal is
the one that is most likely to have lots of semi-independent windows
opened at the same time, and spawning new windows is much more common.
More so, if it does not support tabs.
Therefore, we special case terminal launchers to always create a new
window. It is an application that most non-technical users will not
use, so chances of them being confused by any special behaviour is
expected to be low.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695010
Filtering out "non-interesting" windows beforehand as we currently do
means that we may get properties that should be based on all windows,
like the last time the application was used, wrong.
Just track all windows and filter out non-interesting windows manually
in the one place we actually care about the difference.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719824
Rather than scanning all apps for searching, use Ryan's new desktop
file index and the glib support APIs for app searching instead of our
own system.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711631
We want to move away from gnome-menus eventually, so the simple
utility method isn't really worth keeping around. Reimplement it
in the one place that uses it.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698486
Long ago, the search system worked in a synchronous manner: providers
were given a query, and results were collected in a single array of
[provider, results] pairs, and then the search display was updated
from that.
We introduced an asynchronous search system when we wanted to potentially
add a Zeitgeist search provider to the Shell in 3.2. For a while, search
providers were either async or sync, which worked by storing a dummy array
in the results, and adding a method for search providers to add results
later.
Later, we removed the search system entirely and ported the remaining
search providers to simply use the API to modify the empty array, but the
remains of the synchronous search system with its silly array still
lingered.
Finally, it's time to modernize. Promises^WCallbacks are the future.
Port the one remaining in-shell search engine (app search) to the new
callback based system, and simplify the remote search system in the
process.
When we create a result actor, cache it, so it can be used for
subsearches of the same initial. For now, to keep memory usage
and the stage graph relatively clean, don't persist the actors
across searches, but maybe we should do this in the future.
This also means that we don't query getResultMetas for items
that we've seen in the same initial search.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704912
The application picker will always open with the view that was last
selected during the session, but the selection is reset on each
restart. This results in some annoyance for users that use the
ALL view exclusively, as they have to toggle views once each
session - the same would apply to exclusive FREQUENT view users
were the defaults to be changed, so the best solution is to simply
make the selected view persistent by storing it in GSettings.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710042
Allow the prefix 'special:' applied to result IDs to mark results
that should be always shown, even when they would overflow the
maximum results cap. This will be used by epiphany for the special
"Search the Web" result.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707055
