gnome-shell displays workspace previews at one tenth scale. That's a
few binary orders of magnitude so even using a LINEAR filter was
resulting in visible jaggies. Now we apply mipmapping so they appear
smooth.
As an added bonus, the mipmaps used occupy roughly 1% the memory of
the original image (0.1 x 0.1 = 0.01) so they actually fit into GPU/CPU
caches now and rendering performance is improved. There's no need to
traverse the original texture which at 4K resolution occupies 33MB,
only a 331KB mipmap.
In my case this reduces the render time for the overview by ~10%.
Closes: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/1416https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1347
The current code assumes that the actor will always have the same
size and position of the background texture, but part of the implicit
contract of being a ClutterContent is being able to render itself
at any given actor, at any given size.
For example, if the current code is given an actor with 0x0+100+100
as geometry, and no clipped region, it'll render not the whole
background, but the 0x0+100+100 rectangle of the background. In
practice, the actor geometry acts like a "clip mask" over the
background texture, due to the assumption that the actor will
always have the same size of the monitor.
Make the calculation of the texture slices relative to the actor
box.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1302
MetaBackgroundContent is a ClutterContent implementation
that can render a background to any attached actor. Right
now, it preserves all the properties and the rendering
model of MetaBackgroundActor.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1302
