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
When selecting "Open Calendar" in the date menu, the configured
application is launched via command line, so we don't get any
startup notification. In order to fix the issue at least for our
default calendar, add a hidden .desktop file for evolution's
calendar component.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677907
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.
A new tool, 'gnome-shell-extension-prefs' can load a new entry point from
extensions, 'prefs.js', which has an entry point to return a GTK+ widget.
This allows extensions to have their own preferences dialog, without each
extension needing to ship its own Python script and .desktop file.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668429
Build gnome-shell as a binary linked against libmutter-wm, instead of
a module to be loaded by libmutter-wm. Move the majority of
initialization-type stuff from gnome_shell_plugin_start() into main().
We still build libgnome-shell as a shared library, so that the linker
doesn't discard all the methods that are never called from C.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641724
The current gnome-shell.in script has a huge amount of
unnecessary complexity for the installed, normal case. Fix
this by adding a configure option (defaulting to false) that
installs a simple, obvious wrapper script around mutter.
We do change the gnome-shell build setup to pass this option
by default for jhbuild.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=642084
A key for 12hr/24hr clock format has been added to gsettings-desktop-schemas,
so use that instead of the one from the shell clock schema.
As the setting can be controlled from the Date and Time panel of
gnome-control-center now, drop the temporary preference dialog
as well.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633200
Use the same approach as other generated headers (a temporary file,
compare to the existing, then copy), to avoid touching st.h, so
that other dependent objects are not rebuilt, if not needed.
It should speed up building when switching git branches, as often
config.status or automake are run, causing Makefiles to be recreated.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638453
ST makes use of GTK+ for input methods and for icon themes; therefore
we have need to initialize GTK+ in order to test these parts of Clutter.
Instead of LD_PRELOADING our module, use a separately compiled executable
that links to the UI components in GNOME Shell, initializes Clutter and
GTK+ and hooks them together.
Getting all the symbols from St and the GUI components exported for
use via GJS requires a bit of contortion: we need to actually link the
St convenience library into a shared library and link the executable
to that since there is no way with libtool to take a convenience library
and put all its symbols into an executable --whole-archive style.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633657
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
For srcdir != builddir, in the builddir, the st/ subdirectory doesn't
exist, so we can't generate st.h there. Just switch to building st.h
directly in the current directory. (The other option would be to
create a st/ subdirectory in the builddir if necessary; might be a
little cleaner, but this works for now and gets things distchecking.)
Import:
HippoCanvasTheme => StTheme
HippoCanvasThemeImage => StThemeImage
HippoCanvasStyle => StThemeNode
StThemeContext is a new class managing the theme for a stage and
global properties like resolution.
test-theme.c is a newly written test program to do verification of the
style matching and property handling rules.
Various changes are made in the import:
- Comprehensive reindentation
- guint32 pixels replaced with ClutterColor
- General pseudo-class support added
- Old-fashioned (non-bordered) background image support added, though
with no support for repeat, etc.
- Bug fixes for problems revealed by test program
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595990
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
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
