Commit 6c2f3d1d17 moved pref overrides into JS to implement
session mode specific overrides in a clean and generic way.
However that approach comes with a cost - doing the overrides only
after having handled over control to JS means that the core will
be initialized with the non-overridden settings before changing
to the correct values. In the best case this is unnecessary work,
but it can in fact have a worse effect: when initializing workspaces,
we will restore the previous number of workspaces when using
dynamic-workspaces and reset to the configured number otherwise.
As the non-overridden default for dynamic-workspaces is FALSE, we
can easily end up moving the user's windows to the "wrong" workspace.
Now GSettings is expected to grow support for session specific defaults,
which will render our entire override system obsolete (yay!). Given
that, it seems acceptable to use a less generic (and uglier) approach
in the meanwhile, in order to fix aforementioned problems. So move
overrides back before core initialization and just hardcode the
session-mode => override-schema relation.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695487
Having the full geometry of the menu's source button (if any) will
allow us to address several misbehaviors of window menus, so use
that instead of show_menu().
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731058
We now allow "appmenu" in the button layout to make synchronizing it
with GTK+'s client-side decorations easier, but as some people tweak
their settings to get in-window app menus even when using the shell,
actually pop up the app menu when the button is activated.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730752
With tile previews being implemented as Clutter actors in the shell, we
can now easily add fancy animations when showing/hiding the preview.
Besides looking more polished, the animations also help understanding
what will happen to the window when the drag is finished.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665758
Currently workspaces (except for the last one) are removed when
they become empty. While we do have special treatment for the
case where the currently active workspace is removed, we just
move directly without animations to the last workspace to avoid
ending up on a "random" workspace. However this behavior is still
a bit confusing, so keep the workspace around instead until the
user decides to move to another one.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709064
Windows in the overview should be like they appear in the workspace,
including modal dialogs that are attached above them.
In addition, hiding the dialogs in the overview causes a flash as
dialog appears at the end of the transition.
Based on a patch by Maxim Ermilov <zaspire@rambler.ru>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650843
Activating the overview is fairly easy (hot corner, <super>), so doing it
automatically after closing the last window on a workspace does not save
a lot of effort; it does result in a surprising context switch when the
user does not expect the behavior.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662581
Unfortunately, display configuration can and does fail, due
to unspecified HW constraints, drivers bugs, unsupported exotic
configurations or just bad luck.
So when the user makes a change in the control center, show
a dialog asking him if it looks OK, and revert back after 20 seconds
otherwise.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706208
We've long had the hasWorkspaces property, but it doesn't seem like
it was ever used. Implement it so that we don't have workspaces in
initial-setup mode.
Since it's difficult to make it change at runtime with a decent set
of semantics, and we never expect that to happen, don't bother
implementing it dynamically.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698593
We currently monitor the shell's override schema for changes to
the 'dynamic-workspaces' key, which ends up being the wrong
schema in classic mode. With the new ability to use mode-specific
overides, we can finally fix this.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701717
Currently we show the workspace popup for relative targets ("up", "down"),
but not when targetting a specific workspace directly.
There is not really a good reason for that difference, and as we are about
to introduce a new shortcut to target the last workspace (which does vary
with dynamic workspaces), it makes sense to unify the behavior and always
show the switcher.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659288
It makes sense to allow closing the app menu with the same shortcut
that is used to open it, so make it a toggle action and allow it
TOPBAR_POPUP mode.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686756
Alt-Tab away from a monitor sized on the primary monitor results into the top
panel being displayed on top of the window which looks very bad.
So just hide those windows by minimizing them.
The icon geometry animation does not really make sense for fullscreen windows
so just fade them out.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693991
meta_display_add_keybinding() returns a keybinding action ID for
dynamically registered keybindings which can be used to match a
keycode/mask pair to the action it is bound to.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682315
We previously scaled windows to (primary.x, 0), which is wrong if the
primary monitor is not at y == 0. At the same time, change the policy
to pick the hot corner on the monitor the window is on, because that's
closest to where it will appear in the overview.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690241
If we overwrite a map animation (for example because the actor is now destroyed),
we need to complete it first, otherwise it starts off from a random
middle point. This is the same treatment opacity gets for normal windows.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690241
Now that we use the new 'switch-applications' keybinding for the
application-based alt-tab popup, we can use the 'switch-windows'
keybinding for a more traditional switcher.
Based heavily on the alternate-tab extension from Giovanni Campagna.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688913
The Shell's alt-tab popup is application-based, so using the
'switch-windows' keybinding for it never really made sense.
Use the newly added 'switch-applications' keybinding instead.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688913
The original condition the property was based on was added to make
the a11y switcher available in the login screen, though it did never
work properly - after popping up the switcher, additional tab key
presses were ignored. As we are now able to filter bindings much more
selectively, we can simplify the check and drop the sessionMode property.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688202
With the new flexible system in place, there's no point explicitly
hardcoding some built-in keybindings; just use the generic mechanism
for everything.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688202
Currently we hardcode the set of keybindings that are available in the
overview; add a generic mechanism to specify in which KeybindingModes
a keybinding should be available.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688202
We are currently using a hack to allow a select set of keybindings
in the overview. Implement the new MetaPlugin keybinding_filter
hook, which provides a cleaner way to achieve the same.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688202
The fade animation we started using after centering attached
modal dialogs didn't work too well. So after going back to the
scale animation, adjust it to scale from the center rather
than the top, which works quite well.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=681601
