The interface looked like a good idea around the time Clutter 0.2 was
out, but in reality we never had a proper, and supported implementation
outside of clutter-gst - thus, ClutterMedia was acting like a wrapper
around GStreamer, leading to hilarious issues of impedence mismatch
between API and all sorts of indirection issues typical of wrong
abstractions.
In theory, ClutterMedia should have been deprecated and removed before
we hit 1.0, but we kept flip-flopping on the issue.
For 2.0, it's time to take it out.
And shoot it in the face.
Some of the Clutter code was using GL types for the primitive types
such as GLint and GLubyte and then passing these to Cogl. This doesn't
make much sense because the Cogl functions directly take native C
types. This patch just replaces them with either a native C type or a
glib type.
Some of the cogl conformance tests are trying to directly call GL for
example to test creating a foreign texture. These tests have been
changed to manually define the GL enum values instead of relying on a
GL header to define them.
This is necessary because Cogl may soon stop including a GL header
from its public headers.
Reviewed-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
Since Cogl has started restricting what cogl 1.x api is exposed when
COGL_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_2_0_API is defined and since we build all
Clutter internals with COGL_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_2_0_API defined this
patch makes a first pass at reducing our internal use of the Cogl 1.x
api.
The most notable api that's no longer exposed to us internally is
the cogl_material_ api so this switches all Clutter internals to use the
cogl_pipeline_ api instead. This patch also makes quite a bit of
progress removing internal uses of CoglHandle although there is still
more to go.
ClutterActor has a background-color property, now; we should use it for
the Stage, re-implement the color property in terms of background-color.
and deprecate the Stage property.
Since the code dealing with ClutterShader is pretty self-contained, now,
we can safely move it outside of the main ClutterActor source file and
into its own. This will allow us to just drop a bunch of files when
branching for 2.0.
During the gutting of ClutterBox, the destroy and dispose implementation
were removed. The former, especially, destroyed all children - which
usually meant that the redraw queues for the childre was cleared as
well. The removal introduced crashes when a Box was destroyed while its
children were still queueing redraws.
The only actor that results in a mix of the old Container API and the
new Actor API is ClutterStage. By inheritance, a Stage is a Group, but
we don't want it to behave like a Group - as it already overrides most
of the Actor API, and the reason why it was made as a Group in the
first place was convenience for adding/removing children.
Given that touching Group to make it aware of the new Actor API has
rapidly devolved into a struggle between a Demiurge that tries to
avoid breakage and a Chaos that finds new and interesting ways to
break ClutterGroup, let's declare API bankruptcy here and now.
ClutterStage should override ClutterContainer methods, and use the
layout management of ClutterFixedLayout as the proper class that it
was meant to be ages ago. Let ClutterGroup rot in pieces.
Now that we reinstated Group to its "former glory", we need to ensure
that applications using the deprecated containers with the new DOM API
in ClutterActor can actually work - or, at least, not break horribly.
This actually means making sure that ClutterStage and ClutterGroup can
cope with the DOM, while retaining their old implementations, as well as
their bizarre idiosyncrasies and their utter, utter brokenness.
Making Group just a proxy to Actor broke some behaviour that application
and toolkit code was relying on. Let's keep Group around to fight
another day.
This commit fixes gnome-shell as far as I can test it.
A Group is a just a ClutterActor with the layout-manager property set at
instance initialization time. It doesn't need anything else from
ClutterActor's vtable, except the slightly custom show_all/hide_all
implementation, and a simplified get_paint_volume.
The hide_all() method is pretty much pointless, as hiding an actor will
automatically prevent its children from being painted. The show_all()
method would only be marginally useful, if actors weren't set to be
visible by default when added to another actor - which was the case when
we introduced show_all() and hide_all().
The concept of "internal child" only meant anything when we had a
separate API for containers and actors. Now that we plugged that
particular hole, we can drop all the hacks we used to have in place
to work around its design limitations.
We have a replacement in ClutterActor, now.
The old ClutterContainer API needs to be deprecated, and the raise() and
lower() virtual functions need a default implementation, so we can check
for implementations overriding them, by using the diagnostic mode like
we do for add(), remove(), and foreach().
The sort_depth_order() virtual function just doesn't do anything, as it
should have been made ages ago.
The Actor wrappers for the Container methods also need to be deprecated.
The get_children(), foreach(), and foreach_with_internals() methods and
virtual functions are superceded by the Actor API, and should not be
used in newly written code.
This will make things interesting.
We have better replacements in ClutterActor, that do The Right Thing™
instead of deferring control and requiring reimplementation in every
single container actor.
The Group functionality is now provided by ClutterActor.
Sadly, we need to keep the ClutterGroup structure definition in the
non-deprecated header because ClutterStage inherits from Group - an API
wart that was never fixed during the 0.x cycles, and that we'll have to
keep around until we can break API.
ClutterBox functionality has been implemented by ClutterActor, and
proxied by the Box subclass; with the removal of the abstract bit on
ClutterActor, we can safely deprecated ClutterBox.
The depth cueing through GL fog has been broken for a long while, now.
The fog-related API in Clutter is ridiculously limited, and harks back
to simpler times; the ClutterFog structure is not enough to express all
the GL fog machinery, and required application code to connect to the
Stage's paint implementation and drop into Cogl directly.
Additionally, the fixed pipeline fog machinery in GL simply does not
work with premultiplied alpha, unless you use a shader - and in that
case it would only work for textures. Let's deprecate it, and just
don't do anything if somebody has the brilliant idea of setting the
:use-fog property to TRUE.
We still ship clutter_get_show_fps() and clutter_get_debug_enabled() as
public entry points. Yet another case of missing API review prior to the
1.0 release, so really the bucket stops around my desk.
Let's deprecate these two useless functions, and reduce the API
footprint of Clutter.
This function should have never been made public in the first place; its
output depends on a configuration option of Clutter, and it's basically
useful only for internal debugging.
These methods are short-hands for accessing the position and size,
which are already shorthands for accessing the various dimensional
and positional attributes. Plus, they use ClutterGeometry, which is a
fairly bad data type for a rectangle.
Setting the default frame rate does not do anything even remotely
useful, unless synchronization to the vertical refresh rate is also
disabled - which can only be done through environment variable or
through configuration file. Having a programmatic way to change the
default frame rate is, thus, completely pointless.
Changing the default frame rate through environment variable and
configuration file is still allowed.
The clutter-stage.h header still has a bunch of macros that have, for
reasons unknown[*], survived the 1.0 API cut and have long since been
deprecated. Let's hide them under the deprecated/ carpet and let us
never speak of them ever again.
[*] pretty sure alcohol or other psychotropic substances were involved
but I take the 5th on that.
