That means before-update, prepare-paint, before-paint, paint-view, after-paint,
after-update. While yet to be used, it will be used as a transient frame
book keeping object, to maintain object and state that is only valid
during a frame dispatch.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/2795>
The "paint" signal of ClutterActor is deprecated and will be removed. We
have a good replacement to get notified about stage paints nowadays,
that is "after-paint" on ClutterStage, so switch to that signal where it
makes sense.
I didn't bother to update the few tests (namely Clutters
conform/texture-fbo.c, conform/text-cache.c,
interactive/test-cogl-multitexture.c and Cogls
conform/test-multitexture.c, conform/test-texture-mipmaps.c) where it's
harder to replace the signal since we don't build those anyway.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1522
When painting, actors rely on semi global state tracked by the state to
get various things needed for painting, such as the current draw
framebuffer. Having state hidden in such ways can be very deceiving as
it's hard to follow changes spread out, and adding more and more state
that should be tracked during a paint gets annoying as they will not
change in isolation but one by one in their own places. To do this
better, introduce a paint context that is passed along in paint calls
that contains the necessary state needed during painting.
The paint context implements a framebuffer stack just as Cogl works,
which is currently needed for offscreen rendering used by clutter.
The same context is passed around for paint nodes, contents and effects
as well.
In this commit, the context is only introduced, but not used. It aims to
replace the Cogl framebuffer stack, and will allow actors to know what
view it is currently painted on.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/merge_requests/935
