Handle layer promotion of transient descendants of layer-promoted windows

2004-02-27  Rob Adams  <readams@readams.net>

	Handle layer promotion of transient descendants of layer-promoted
	windows to also be layer promoted, using a simple iterative
	algorithm.

	* src/stack.c (compute_layer): change name to promote_layer, and
	convert to simply perform any necessary layer promotion without
	computing the standalone layer.
	(max_layer_func): use window->layer instead of
	get_standalone_layer
	(get_maximum_layer_of_ancestor): use window->layer instead of
	get_standalone_layer
	(meta_stack_ensure_sorted): implement iterative algorithm,
	explained in a long comment.

	* src/window.h: add a tmp_layer field used by stack.c for
	determining if the stack is dirty or not, since maintaining this
	information in meta_stack_ensure_sorted is no longer practical.
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Rob Adams 2004-02-28 01:49:17 +00:00 committed by Rob Adams
parent 47e6bd5648
commit 9739346c85
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2004-02-27 Rob Adams <readams@readams.net>
Handle layer promotion of transient descendants of layer-promoted
windows to also be layer promoted, using a simple iterative
algorithm.
* src/stack.c (compute_layer): change name to promote_layer, and
convert to simply perform any necessary layer promotion without
computing the standalone layer.
(max_layer_func): use window->layer instead of
get_standalone_layer
(get_maximum_layer_of_ancestor): use window->layer instead of
get_standalone_layer
(meta_stack_ensure_sorted): implement iterative algorithm,
explained in a long comment.
* src/window.h: add a tmp_layer field used by stack.c for
determining if the stack is dirty or not, since maintaining this
information in meta_stack_ensure_sorted is no longer practical.
2004-02-23 Rob Adams <readams@readams.net>
Add my copyright notice to a number of files on which it should

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/*
* Copyright (C) 2001 Havoc Pennington
* Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 Red Hat, Inc.
* Copyright (C) 2004 Rob Adams
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
@ -290,11 +291,9 @@ max_layer_func (MetaWindow *window,
void *data)
{
MaxLayerData *d = data;
MetaStackLayer layer;
layer = get_standalone_layer (window);
if (layer > d->max)
d->max = layer;
if (window->layer > d->max)
d->max = window->layer;
return TRUE;
}
@ -304,7 +303,7 @@ get_maximum_layer_of_ancestor (MetaWindow *window)
{
MaxLayerData d;
d.max = get_standalone_layer (window);
d.max = window->layer;
meta_window_foreach_ancestor (window, max_layer_func, &d);
return d.max;
@ -349,10 +348,8 @@ get_maximum_layer_in_group (MetaWindow *window)
}
static void
compute_layer (MetaWindow *window)
promote_layer (MetaWindow *window)
{
window->layer = get_standalone_layer (window);
/* We can only do promotion-due-to-group for dialogs and other
* transients, or weird stuff happens like the desktop window and
* nautilus windows getting in the same layer, or all gnome-terminal
@ -387,16 +384,6 @@ compute_layer (MetaWindow *window)
* and a dialog transient for the normal window; you don't want the dialog
* above the dock if it wouldn't normally be.
*/
/* FIXME when promoting a window here,
* it's necessary to promote its transient children
* (or other windows constrained to be above it)
* as well, but we aren't handling that, and it's
* somewhat hard to fix.
*
* http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96140
*/
MetaStackLayer group_max;
group_max = get_maximum_layer_in_group (window);
@ -913,34 +900,99 @@ meta_stack_ensure_sorted (MetaStack *stack)
/* Update the layers that windows are in */
if (stack->need_relayer)
{
gint layers_dirty;
meta_topic (META_DEBUG_STACK,
"Recomputing layers\n");
tmp = stack->sorted;
tmp = stack->sorted;
while (tmp != NULL)
{
MetaWindow *w;
w = tmp->data;
w->tmp_layer = w->layer;
w->layer = get_standalone_layer(w);
tmp = tmp->next;
}
/* Keep track of group or transient-induced layer promotion;
* iterate until we reach a fixed point.
*
* Note that we know this will terminate because in each
* iteration at least one window is promoted, and each window
* can only be promoted a fixed number of times. So we can
* iterate at most only O(n) times where n is the number of
* windows. More precisely, though, it will iterate at most
* once for each window in the longest chain of transient
* dependents, which in general won't be more than 2-3 windows
* long.
*
* Overall though, since promote_layer is potentially O(n)
* itself, this is worst-case O(n^3) in the case where every
* window is in a chain of transients starting at a dock window
* and the windows are in reverse order in the stack order to
* begin with. In practice, this will never happen, and for
* real users the complexity behaves like O(n), since for real
* desktops the number of levels of transience is
* constant-bounded. This could be done in overall worst-case
* O(n lg n) time by constructing a constraint graph and
* serializing it in the same way that the stacking works for
* windows within a layer, but I suspect this would often be
* slower than this algorithm.
*
* We don't need to constrain as constraining purely operates in
* terms of stack_position not layer
*/
layers_dirty = TRUE;
while (layers_dirty)
{
layers_dirty = FALSE;
tmp = stack->sorted;
while (tmp != NULL)
{
MetaWindow *w;
MetaStackLayer old_layer;
w = tmp->data;
old_layer = w->layer;
promote_layer (w);
if (w->layer != old_layer)
{
/* if we promoted a window in this iteration, and
* that window has a transient descendant, we'll
* have to do another iteration. Unfortunately,
* finding out if a window has transient descendants
* is just as expensive as simply doing another
* iteration, so we'll just always do the iteration.
*/
layers_dirty = TRUE;
}
tmp = tmp->next;
}
}
tmp = stack->sorted;
while (tmp != NULL)
{
MetaWindow *w;
MetaStackLayer old_layer;
w = tmp->data;
old_layer = w->layer;
compute_layer (w);
if (w->layer != old_layer)
if (w->tmp_layer != w->layer)
{
meta_topic (META_DEBUG_STACK,
"Window %s moved from layer %d to %d\n",
w->desc, old_layer, w->layer);
w->desc, w->tmp_layer, w->layer);
stack->need_resort = TRUE;
/* don't need to constrain as constraining
* purely operates in terms of stack_position
* not layer
*/
}
tmp = tmp->next;
}

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/*
* Copyright (C) 2001 Havoc Pennington
* Copyright (C) 2002 Red Hat, Inc.
* Copyright (C) 2003, 2004 Rob Adams
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
@ -286,6 +287,7 @@ struct _MetaWindow
/* Managed by stack.c */
MetaStackLayer layer;
MetaStackLayer tmp_layer;
int stack_position; /* see comment in stack.h */
/* Current dialog open for this window */