Before, we looked up application data in several ways; the ShellAppSystem
exported just application ids (though it parsed the .desktop files internally),
and we'd create a Gio.DesktopAppInfo object (reparsing the desktop file again),
wrapping that inside a JavaScript AppInfo class, and finally the AppDisplay
would again parse the .desktop file to get the categories.
Also, to look up applications by id previously, we traversed the entire
menu structure each time.
Some qualities such as the NoDisplay flag were not easily exposed in the old
system. And if we wanted to expose them we'd have to change several different
application information wrapper classes.
All in all, it was quite suboptimal.
The theme of this new code is basically "just use libgnome-menus". We do
not call into Gio for app lookups anymore. The new Shell.AppInfo class
is a disguised pointer for the GMenuTreeEntry item.
To fix the caching, we keep a simple hash table of desktop id -> ShellAppInfo.
Rework the previously extant Application category code to display
in the expanded list. Add a "Frequent" category which corresponds
to the most_used_apps, and selected by default.
Instead of adding the background and shadow as expanded items to
the results/details panes as fixed, we slave the background/shadow
sizes to the results using notify::allocation.
Also clean up the code for sizing the details pane, using a common
function which adjusts its x position in one place.
The split between this.actor and this.nonOverlayActor in chrome.js is
annoying, but aside from actually subclassing ClutterGroup (which
would have to be done from C), all of the other possibilities are
annoying too.
Add a new icon button in button.js that fades in/out with a short delay when the mouse enters/leaves its parent. Use it for the information button of genericDisplay.
This converts GenericDisplay to totally dynamic layout, where
we display as many items as we can, and the rest cleanly overflow
into pages.
For now, remove multi-column; to readd this, we can pack multiple
display items into a single ShellOverflowList item.
It looks funny to have the "more running apps area" there as a gap
when empty and dragging to it is an unintuitive way to remove stuff
from the favorites list, in any case, so just hide the area when
empty.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587720
Pack everything we don't want to expand with BigBoxPackFlags.NONE;
this fixes the More... button for the docs section ending up with
a gap underneath it.
Since the More... button for the docs now ends is right at the bottom
of the dash, add some padding to it.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587720
Widgets should be horizontally centered in the sidebar. Else they look
out of place (in particular the clock and the applications widgets).
Due to little tricks with the sidebar starting out of the screen to
hide rounded corners, this implies playing with paddings. The patch
decreases the widgets padding from 4 to 2 pixels, removes additionnal
padding on the right, and adds an out-of-screen padding to the widget
box to make up for the negative horizontal position of the sidebar.
The width of a Group actor ends up including the width of its hidden children,
so we were getting a reactive object as wide as the details pane that was
blocking the clicks to the workspaces underneath it even when the details
pane was actually hidden.
Not making the dash Group actor reactive solves this problem. However, we
have to make individual parts of the dash reactive instead so that the clicks
are not passed to the transparent actor underneath them. That transparent
actor is used for dismissing the additional panes when the user clicks over
the workspaces area.
Clutter no longer allows using a clone of an actor that is not a part of
the scene graph. This is what used to happen when we created a clone for
the icon of the item that was being dragged, and then closed the More panes
with the original item, removing the icon from the scene graph. This was
also when happened when the user hit Esc while dragging, which prompted the
overlay to close, removing the original icon from the scene graph.
Rename getIcon() methods to createIcon() to better reflect on the fact that
a new icon is created each time the method is called (we do use cache in
some cases).
Remove a stray log message in overlay.js
Fixes http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585490
and http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585489
The new class AppWell implements the application favorite well
in the Dash component. The previous AppDisplay remains for use
in the More... mode now.
Delete DEFAULT_APPLICATIONS; this is now in GConf.
Rename getMostUsedApps to getTopApps since we now have the
idea of explicit favorites.
Delete some GenericDisplay-related calls from overlay related
to the seletion - we'll reimplement keyboard nav in a more
coherent way later.
AppResults and DocResults classes were identical with an exception of
the display class they used and the text label for the results. Merged
them into a single ItemResults class that takes these two additional
arguments.
Move the activate and select functionality inside the callbacks for
'button-release-event' signals of the display item and the information
button correspondingly. This way it is more obvious that this is an
event handling code that needs to return a boolean value for whether
the signal has been fully handled by the actor.
Update the code for checking a display item under the pointer to expect
the item itself rather than its child to be returned by stage_get_actor_at_pos().
This code is now used to display an information button when an item is
drawn under the pointer, so update the comment accordingly.
Add a comment about the use of the transparent background to catch clicks
in the workspaces area when the dash panes are being displayed and dismiss
the dash panes.
Set opacity for the background to 0 instead of using a transparent background
color so that Clutter optimizes the drawing of the background actor.
Fix up the comments about the horizontal gradient code and use 8x1 texture
instead of 8x8.
Make sure the values we assign to the three-stop horizontal gradient
require the use of the three stop gradient, with the middle value not being
right between the side values.
Display a pane with search results for both applications and documents
automatically when a search string is entered.
Allow viewing search results for the individual section when More link
for applications or documents is clicked.
Move text labels for the applications and documents sections into the
respective classes.
Enable typing in the search box and display results in the results pane.
This means that the user has to open the details pane for applications
or documents to view the results for now.
Connect Enter to launch the seleted item.
Connect Escape to clear search, remove results and details panes,
or exit overlay.
The results sections no longer include a label on top of them, so the
height of that label needs to be subtracted when specifying the height
for the sections. This ensures that display controls are positioned
correctly on the bottom of the section.
Clicking the information button for an item selects it (i.e. highlights it)
and shows details about the item.
Clicking the rest of the item area launches it.
Item does not become draggable if the dragging is started over the information
icon (i.e. if the user presses the information icon, but releases elsewhere).
Make sure we emit "activated" signal and close the overlay when an item from
one of the results displays is launched.
Use an (i) icon supplied by Jeremy for the information link and display
it on hover. Make sure it is positioned nicely and the text doesn't
overlap with it.
Pop-up previews are not part of the new design and interfere with the information link.
Make sure details display for applications has the appropriate width set.
Make sure at most one item is selected in the overlay and we always show
a details pane for the selected item.
Improve the positioning of the search box.
Remove a duplicate variable DASH_PAD and use DASH_SECTION_PADDING everywhere instead.
A blue selected item color fits better with the new color scheme than a green one.
Only one item should be selected across all the displays we are showing.
Display a pane with item details, such as a full image previews, when an item is single clicked.
Add a placeholder information link that shows up when an item is moused over.
Display all recent documents in the results pane, in addition to the first
few displayed in the main dash. All documents can be viewed with the help
of a paging control.
Display the results pane above the workspaces. The results pane is somewhat
transparent and has a blue gradient background. The dash pane is slightly
transparent and also has a blue gradient background.
The results pane shows up when a More control is clicked. It disappears when
a Less control is clicked, an area outside of the dash area is clicked,
an item starts being dragged, or the overlay mode is exited.
Add shell_global_create_horizontal_gradient() to shell-global.[ch]
Increase the priority of the idle for updating work area and struts
to META_PRIORITY_BEFORE_REDRAW. This prevents it from being starved
by a constantly-redrawing client.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585500
The list of all applications was based on the items that show up in
the menus, and might not have contained all applications returned
by the AppMonitor for the most used applications request. One example of
such an application was Evince. This resulted in a crash when an
application we did not prepare the info for was returned as one of the
matches by the AppMonitor, so we now include all applications returned
by the AppMonitor in the list, in addition to the ones from the menus.
Also mark apps as stale when we catch a "changed" signal from the AppMonitor
to ensure that the cache is refreshed.
With commit a3d35af444 variable
itemInfo in js/ui/appDisplay.js was changed to a new object
(AppInfo from js/misc/appInfo.js) but some of the code in
js/ui/appDisplay.js wasn't updated accordingly. This commit
fixes that and makes the search box in the overlay usable
again.
