Straight from Cogl.
This allows us to propagate the GdkVisual Cogl and Clutter use to
embedding toolkits, like GTK+.
The function is annotated as being added to the 1.22 development
cycle because it will be backported to the stable branch, so that
downstream developers can package up a version of Clutter that does
not crash on nVidia.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747489
Just like the other backends can disable the internal event handling,
and use clutter_<backend>_handle_event() to do the native → Clutter
event translation.
The Clutter backend split is opaque enough that should allow us to just
build all possible backends inside the same shared object, and select
the wanted backend at initialization time.
This requires some work in the build system, as well as the
initialization code, to remove duplicate functions that might cause
conflicts at build and link time. We also need to defer all the checks
of the internal state of the platform-specific API to run-time type
checks.
This commit introduces a new flavour for Clutter, that uses GDK
for handling all window system specific interactions (except for
creating the cogl context, as cogl does not know about GDK), including
in particular events. This is not compatible with the X11 (glx)
flavour, and this is reflected by the different soname (libclutter-gdk-1.0.so),
as all X11 specific functions and classes are not available. If you
wish to be compatible, you should check for CLUTTER_WINDOWING_X11.
Other than that, this backend should be on feature parity with X11,
including XInput 2, XSettings and EMWH (with much, much less code)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657434
