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As is, ClutterImage is not really useful, it only serves for rendering a CoglTexture as an actor. Shell, has a subclass that adds more features that unfortunately cannot be upstreamed without bringing more gdk-pixbuf usage inside libmutter, eg implementing GIcon/GLoadableIcon. It also has requirements based on whether the image is symbolic or not. Things that Clutter so far doesn't care about. So just remove ClutterImage & let shells re-implement it themselves if needed based on their needs. Note, that once we have ClutterSnapshot, it should be straightforward to write a custom actor that renders a CoglTexture or so. This "un"fortunately means getting rid of various interactive tests that either didn't compile at all or are not useful as is, like all the remaining interactive tests. Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/4133>
Mutter
Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library.
When used as a Wayland display server, it runs on top of KMS and libinput. It implements the compositor side of the Wayland core protocol as well as various protocol extensions. It also has functionality related to running X11 applications using Xwayland.
When used on top of Xorg it acts as a X11 window manager and compositing manager.
It contains functionality related to, among other things, window management, window compositing, focus tracking, workspace management, keybindings and monitor configuration.
Internally it uses a fork of Cogl, a hardware acceleration abstraction library used to simplify usage of OpenGL pipelines, as well as a fork of Clutter, a scene graph and user interface toolkit.
Mutter is used by, for example, GNOME Shell, the GNOME core user interface, and by Gala, elementary OS's window manager. It can also be run standalone, using the command "mutter", but just running plain mutter is only intended for debugging purposes.
Contributing
To contribute, open merge requests at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter.
It can be useful to first look at the GNOME Handbook and the documentation and API references below first.
Documentation
- Coding style and conventions
- Git conventions
- Code overview
- Building and Running
- Debugging
- Monitor configuration
API Reference
- Meta: https://mutter.gnome.org/meta/
- Clutter: https://mutter.gnome.org/clutter/
- Cogl: https://mutter.gnome.org/cogl/
- Mtk: https://mutter.gnome.org/mtk/
Meetings
There are recurring meetings to discuss development of GNOME Shell, mutter and related components.
License
Mutter is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. See the COPYING file for detalis.