Color aware rendering needs shaders / pipelines that adapt to what
output they render to. For example if we want to render to a linear
BT.2020 intermediate framebuffer on one monitor, and a non-linear sRGB
direct target buffer on another, the shader for the same paint node or
content will depend on where they are going to be presented.
In order to help keeping track of what shader should target what
monitor, without having to regenerate them each time, introduce a
pipeline cache that knows how to handle differentiating between
transforming between different color state.
The cache is meant to handle caches for multiple pipeline users, where
each user might potentially want to keep track of multiple pipelines
itself. Lookup should be O(1), and in order to achieve this, separate
the cache into 3 levels.
The first level is the "pipeline group", where e.g. a ClutterContent
type allocates a group where it can store its pipelines. Each group has
a fixed number of "slots" where it can store a pipeline. Each slot has a
hash table where the key is derived from a color state transform, and
where the value is a CoglPipeline where the thame color state
transformation is expected to be handled.
A content will when painting know about its own color state, and the
target state it should render into, retrieve a cached pipeline for the
correct transform, or if the cache didn't have it, generate it.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3433>
This is a step in cleaning up the Clutter context management. By making
it a GObject it's easier to add e.g. properties and features that helps
with introspection.
For now, this means the context creation is changed to go via a
"constructor" (clutter_create_context()). This is so that the global
context singleton can be mantained outsid of ClutterContext, until it
can be removed.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/2016>
