Using the scroll wheel to switch workspaces makes sense, but it is
currently only supported on the workspace switcher, as it conflicts
with window zooming in the picker.
As changing workspaces is far more useful than the zoom feature,
remove the latter in order to "free" the scroll wheel for workspace
switching.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686639
Right now we arrange the window thumbnails in a grid if there are more than two
rows of them. This was originally intended to reduce the amount of noise in the
thumbnail arrangement. It also made sense when the thumbnails were of a similar
size.
Nowadays we reflect the size of windows in the size of the thumbnail. This
leads to huge amounts of space between some windows when they are grid aligned.
Removing the grid alignment would also lead to larger thumbnails.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694210
Making them not fully opaque just makes them harder to see and there is no reason why the user should care whether the window is minimized or not when
switching to a window display them like any other windows.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693991
If WindowOverlay.relayout() is called without animation, we must stop
any preexisting animation, otherwise it will continue to run with the
previous parameters and cause the overlay to end up in the wrong position.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693970
The one we had before could make unmaximized windows appear to be bigger
than maximized ones, for a few reasons. Ensure that this doesn't happen
again, and add some comments to explain the whys and needs for twiddling
the individual thumbnail size.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686944
We clamp the overall layout's scale to WINDOW_CLONE_MAXIMUM_SCALE, but since
we do a bit of tweaking to try and make super small windows a tad larger, it's
theoretically possible that windows may become larger than the proper maximum
scale. Fix this issue.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686944
Add an style class targetting workspaces located outside the overview,
and use it for extra padding around the window clones. Padding is passed
down and applied inside LayoutStrategy, consolidating code that previously
handled the bottom side only.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690171
The current code parses the button-layout setting because MetaButtonLayout
was not usable from introspection. With that fixed, we can switch to
using meta_prefs_get_button_layout().
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=689263
After the first time the title was placed, we were setting its width,
thus forcing get_preferred_width() to return that as the minimum and
natural width.
To workaround that, explicitly reset the width to -1, -1, causing
StLabel->get_preferred_width() to be called, which would give us a meaningful
value for minimum and natural width.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688234
WindowOverlay was at times seeing bogus values reported as WindowClone
sizes. Fix that by storing and passing the value from the authoritative
source, that is, the LayoutStrategy.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688234
Since the introduction of overlay hover borders, there has a been
a timing disconnection between hiding the border and button, and
this creates noise and reduces the effect of the window+overlay
as a single unit.
Solve that by animating the close button too, so that the two actors
are shown and hidden always at the same time.
Also, consolidate the code to make it clear to future authors that
those two items need to stay coordinated.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688966
Windows in the overview should be highlighted when hovered, to indicate
they are an active target.
Based on a patch by Marc Plano-Lesay <marc.planolesay@gmail.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665310
When in the overview, if you move the mouse cursor over one of the
application launchers in the dash, all the unrelated windows are dimmed
both both in the window view and in the workspace view.
It helps to easily understand whether or not there are already opened
windows for this application, and where they are. It can also help in
differentiating the windows in the overview (sometimes the thumbnails
aren't precise enough to easily know which thumbnail belongs to which
application).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657315
Reposition the window overlay when the title changes, using the current
transformed size of the window clone.
Includes a test that changes title to a string of random length every 3 seconds.
Based on a patch by Alex Hultman <alexhultman@gmail.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620874
Change the layout strategy to be more like the mockups. With less than
two rows of windows, we try to fit every window in a non-aligned situation;
with more than three rows of windows, we try to fit every window in an
aligned situation.
Based heavily on a patch from Pierre-Eric Pelloux-Prayer <pelloux@gmail.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=582650
Right now, when entering the overview, we compute the window slots about
four or five times, from scratch each time. Move to a queued system where
extraneous calls to positionWindows don't matter.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=582650
We are replacing the gnome-screensaver module with with a screen shield
that is part of gnome-shell.
This patch fades out the screen on idle and shows a shield with a background
image when there is activity again. The shield can be removed with a key or
button press.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619955
Clear the ClutterClickAction state before starting the drag,
otherwise it will eat the first button event after the drag,
preventing a new drag from being started.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662386
If there's a single small window (e.g. empathy chat) in the overview, it
looks usable, because it's as big as outside of the overview, but when
you start to type, overview search is launched, which is confusing.
Fix that by setting maximum scale for window clones to 0.7
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646704
In overview when closing a window and afterwards dragging a window it can
happen that you pick a wrong window or no window if windows' positions is
updated while initiating the drag.
Fix that by delaying window rearrangement when cursor is over a window.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645325
The window overlays may be shown erroneously if hideOverlays is
called while the corresponding clone has an uncompleted tween which
calls showOverlays in its onComplete handler, for instance when
quickly leaving the overview before the initial overview animation
has finished. To fix, remove all existing tweens when hiding the
overlays.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=666020
When in overview, window labels flicker or are temporarily hidden on a
number of occasions - when simply clicking around the area the windows
are displayed in, dragging a window, sliding in the workspace list,
adding new workspaces etc. This patch makes the label for any window
visible at any given moment when in overview and the said window is
not being dragged around.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644861
WorkspacesDisplay was introduced to manage the workspace objects
and views; however, the overview still accesses the view held
by the workspacesDisplay directly, which is a bit odd.
Add some additional methods needed by the overview, and make the
view a private property.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652580
The last patch in the sequence. Every place that was previously
setting prototype has been ported to Lang.Class, to make code more
concise and allow for better toString().
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664436
js2-mode is no longer developed and we recommend js-mode these days,
so switch the modelines to specify that, and make them consistent
across all files.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660358
Right-click menus in the dash can be dismissed by clicking anywhere
outside the menu. However, if a window clone is located beneath the
pointer when doing so, the window is activated and the overview
closed.
The cause of this unexpected behavior is that window previews are
activated on button-release, which is delivered to the preview after
the menu releases its grab on button-press. Use a ClutterClickAction
instead and let Clutter do the right thing, i.e. only trigger a
'clicked' signal when a button-release event is matched by a
corresponding button-press event.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661151
Commit e5bc3a2ba8 changed the hierarchy of WindowClone, which
broke activating windows on hover during xdnd operations. To
avoid intrusive changes, just hide the new actor from picks so
that DND operations pick the actor actually meant to represent
the corresponding window.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658640
Since almost all of the callers of shell_app_activate were using the
default workspace (by passing -1), remove that parameter.
Add a new shell_app_activate_full() API which takes a workspace as
well as a timestamp; previously we might have been ignoring event
timestamps from elsewhere.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648149
Commit 64b2b4a7d4 changed the monitor layout handling, resulting
in some layout errors due to a subtle change in memory handling:
when zooming a window in the overview, the available zoom area is
calculated by subtracting the panel height from the primary monitor
area. This area used to be a copy of the monitor rect, but as now
the rect itself is returned, zooming a window on the primary monitor
repeatedly modifies the monitor rect, leading to layout errors in
various parts of the shell.
Fix by using a copy when calculating the available zoom area.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654105
Remove ShellGlobal's monitor-related methods, and have
Main.layoutManager provide that information instead. Move
Main._relayout() to LayoutManager, and have other objects connect to
the layout manager's 'monitors-changed' signal to know when the screen
geometry has changed.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636963
Currently the user has to find an empty spot in the workspace
to be able to launcha new instance of an app using dnd.
This is unnecessary hard, so just allow dropping on windows too.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652079
Workspaces used to contain the desktop background, so when a
workspace was removed, we animated its actor to an off-screen
position before destroying it. As the background has been
removed a while ago, we can destroy the actor directly.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645031
The mouse-wheel zooming "easter egg" breaks horribly when you
drag a window, due to ugly lightbox reparenting tricks it uses.
For now, just end any zoom before we drag the window around.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649632
If a user is fast and mouses over a window while the workspace thumbnail
animations are playing, it can be frustrating when the close button won't
appear at the end of the animation.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645848
Don't do an individual hover fixup for every window overlay, instead
just use the new global.sync_hover() to fix up hovers once we have
finished showing the overview.
Based on a patch from Adel Gadllah <adel.gadllah@gmail.com>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638613
We create a Workspace with a null metaWorkspace for each
non-primary monitor, showing the windows on these monitors.
These are saved in WorkspaceView.extraWorkspaces.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=609258
This means a bunch of windows will not be visible at all in the overview.
Those will be added back with per-screen workspaces on the non-primary
monitors.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=609258
Do a basic job of converting font sizes from pixels to points, so they
will scale will the global GNOME scale factor. Some other sizes that are
clearly related to the font sizes are changed to ems, but no comprehensive
attempt is made to get rid of px units.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636868
If we're dragging a window around and we need to reposition the windows,
due to e.g. the sliding in of the thumbnails or some other reason, then we
need to consider the original position of the dragged window, rather than
the currend drag position. Otherwise we will unnecessarily rearrange the
other windows for instance on snap-back if you moved the dragged window
past some other window.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643786
We currently show the workspace in the overview in a rectangle
with the same aspect ratio as the screen. Originally this was
probably done since it showed the desktop, but we don't do this
anymore, and the positioning of the windows in the overview is
strictly a grid, so its not in any way related to monitor geometry.
Additionally, in the multihead case the screen aspect ratio is
very different from the overview monitor geometry, so a lot of
space is lost.
So, instead we just fill the entire inner rectangle of the overview
with the workspace. However, the way the zoom into and out of the
workspace right now is by scaling the workspace so that it covers
the entire monitor. This cannot really work anymore when the workspace
is a different aspect ratio. Furthermore the coordinates of the
window clone actors are of two very different types in the "original
window" case and the "window in a slot case". One is screen relative,
the other is workspace relative. This makes it very hard to compute
the cost of window motion distance in computeWindowMotion.
In order to handle this we change the way workspace actor positioning
and scaling work. All workspace window clone actors are stored in
true screen coordingates, both the original window positions and the
in-a-slot ones. Global scaling of the workspace is never done, we
just reposition everything in both the initial zoom and when the
controls appear from the side.
There is one issue in the initial and final animations, which is that
the clip region we normally have for the workspacesView will limit the
animation of the clones to/from the original positions, so we disable
the clip region during these animations.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643786
When we are dragging a window over its current workspace or workspace
thumbnail, we show show "no drop possible" feedback instead
of "move here" feedback.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=642329
Make calling workspace.setReservedSlot(null) do nothing if the slot was
already null; this improves efficiency and more importantly chills out some
weird reentrancy at the end of drag and drop that removes a window from
a workspace.
With workspace thumbnails, we don't switch workspaces when dragging windows
between workspaces or adding new workspaces, so we also shouldn't switch
on launch.
* Add workspace parameters to shell_doc_system_open(),
shell_app_activate, shell_app_open_new_window()
* Pass a 'params' object when activating items in the overview with
two currently defined parameters: workspace and timestamp. (timestamp
is only implemented where it is easy and doesn't require interface
changes - using the global current timestamp for the shell is almost
always right or at least good enough.)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640996
When checking the type of a DND source, instead of checking
'instanceof Workspaces.WindowClone' accept any actor with realWindow
and metaWindow properties. This will be useful to support a separate
type of actor dragged from workspace thumbnails.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640996
Commit 91d8a32f25 let WindowClone forward the size-changed signal
of the "real" window, disconnecting the signal handler when the
clone is destroyed. In case the clone was destroyed due to the
MetaWindowActor being closed, this results in a warning
(gsignal.c:2392: instance `0x2a3fac0' has no handler with id `2955').
Handle the case where the original window is destroyed before its
clone.
Windows may change their size while the overview is open, e.g. when
switching panels in the control center. Make sure that the preview's
position and overlay are updated in that case.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640560
Given that the grid view is gone there is no point in animating the
window previews on all workspaces anymore so just do it for the current
one avoid taking a slow down caused by animating windows on other workspaces.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=637353
Delegate the emission of the window-drag-begin/window-drag-end
signals to overview functions, as done already for other items.
This will enable objects to react to those signals without having
access to the workspace objects / the workspaces view.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=634948
The new layout does no longer support view switching, so merge
GenericWorkspacesView and SingleView, and remove MosaicView.
Also rename or remove workspace properties and functions which
are now unused.
The grid will have a comeback with the new DND behavior.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=634948
While scaling the desktop background with the window previews represents
workspaces quite intuitively, the approach is not without problems.
As window previews in the overview behave quite differently to "real"
windows, the representation of workspaces as miniature versions of
"real" workspaces is flawed. The scaling also makes the transitions
to and from the overview much more visually expensive, without adding
much benefit.
Leaving the background in place provides more visual stability to the
transitions and emphasizes the distinctive behavior of elements in the
overview.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=634948
The code to draw the root background has now been moved into Mutter,
with added smarts to not draw obscured portions. Remove the old
version of the code and clone the Mutter background actor to draw
the background in the overview.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=634836
MutterWindow and MutterPlugin have been renamed to MetaWindowActor
and MetaPlugin, mutter_plugin_list_windows() to
meta_plugin_list_window_actors(). Adapt to those changes.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632500
Although within St itself there are situations where the semantics of
these functions (return TRUE or FALSE and return the actual value in
an out parameter) is useful, it's mostly just annoying at the
application level, where you generally know that the CSS property is
going to specified, and there is no especially sane fallback if it's
not.
So rename the current methods to lookup_color, lookup_double, and
lookup_length, and add new get_color, get_double, and get_length
methods that don't take an "inherit" parameter, and return their
values directly. (Well, except for get_color, due to the lack of (out
caller-allocates) in gjs.)
And update the code to use either the old or new methods as appropriate.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=632590
Return a DND.DragMotionResult constant from delegate _handleDragMotion
methods as well as the existing return value from the drag monitor method dragMotion.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607821
The design calls for item to not appear abruptly, but not too slow
either - 100ms seems to be a good sweet spot for elements which are
supposed to appear "instantly".
Add a fade effect to the alt-tab popup and set the timings for other
fade effects to 100ms.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621247
