We should allow a configuration file to set up the initial state of the
global state, which also implies being able to set the backend.
If the allowed backends have already been set programmatically via the
clutter_set_windowing_backend(), though, then the application code takes
precedence, as we assume that the application author knows better than
us what their code supports or requires.
Like CLUTTER_DRIVER, we want to allow users to specify a list of
backends to test, and fall back to the internally defined priority as a
default.
This requires changing the way the allowed backend string is parsed,
both for the CLUTTER_BACKEND environment variable and for the
clutter_set_windowing_backend() function. Existing callers are still
supported with the exact same semantics.
Using environment variables only is not convenient for all platforms,
and in some cases it's beneficial to decide the default driver when
building Clutter. Cogl already has a similar configuration switch, and
since Clutter is overriding the default Cogl behaviour, it should offer
the same mechanism.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742678
We have an hardcoded list of drivers we have to go through when creating
a Cogl context. Some platforms may expose those drivers, but not be the
preferred ones.
In order to allow users and system integrators to override the list of
drivers, we should crib the same approach used by GDK, and have an
environment variable with a list of drivers to try.
The new environment variable is called `CLUTTER_DRIVER` and accepts a
comma-separated list of driver names, which will be tested in sequence
until one succeeds. There's also an additional '*' token which is used
to ask Clutter to fall back to the internally defined preferred list of
drivers.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742678
Device managers can now implement the ClutterEventExtender interface
that allows them to set their own data to events, make the backend call
those implementations if the device manager implements the interface.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758238
We want to use the Cogl GL3 driver, if possible, and then go through a
known list of Cogl drivers, before giving up and using COGL_DRIVER_ANY.
Based on original patch from Emmanuele Bassi.
We have to create and tear down the whole context when trying
out the drivers though because the extension checks do not happen
until cogl_context_init.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742678
The whole of ClutterBackend is a final/protected type, so having a bunch
of instance fields and an instance private data structure is redundant
at best, and less efficient at worst.
Nobody has been compiling Clutter with profiling enabled in a long time.
UProf itself hasn't been updated in 5 years, and it still depends on
deprecated components like dbus-glib, with no port to GDBus in sight.
The profiling code was moderately useful in the past, but these days
it's probably better to profile Cogl than Clutter itself; timing
information can be extracted by the timestamp on each diagnostic message
that is now available by default in the CLUTTER_NOTE macro, and we can
add ad hoc counters where needed.
Added support for Mir, now clutter can natively draw on MirSurfaces.
This depends on latest cogl git.
Run your clutter apps using CLUTTER_BACKEND=mir
Signed-off-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@gnome.org>
We tried once with commit 398a7ac7 and ended up reverting because of
regressions in the input layer and on Wayland.
We should try again, now that those regressions have been fixed.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734587
This reverts commit 398a7ac713.
We cannot really use the GDK backend without massive regressions inside
the input layer, like touch events and gestures. The GDK backend is not
entirely up to scratch, and it's late in the cycle.
Let's land this early in 3.15, and get it up to par with X11.
Quite a few people at Guadec complained of pinpoint being broken in
speaker+fullscreen mode, with slides being half displayed. It turns
out that the X11 backend of clutter was being used and this backend
assumes the size of the current monitor is the size of the X screen
(that's not the case with multiple monitors).
To work around the shortcomings of the X11 backend we should probably
position the GDK one before. GDK implements most of the logic the
ClutterStage needs and is probably more tested.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734587
In situations when the default backend would fail (for example
when compiled with X11 support but run without DISPLAY), or
when the application is using backend specific code, it makes
sense to let the application choose the backend explicitly.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707869
The definition of wl_display differs between Wayland clients and
servers, and it's unsafe to include both wayland-client.h and
wayland-server.h at the same time. Fudge around this by making the
compositor public API use void * rather than struct wl_display *.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=692851
The commit 90e5088 added some extra compiler warning options that were
triggering warnings when enabling the wayland build due to missing
header includes. This adds those header includes in.
Reviewed-by: Robert Bragg <robert@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
Because the wayland-server-protocol.h header includes symbols that
collide with wayland-client-protocol.h Cogl now provides top level
<cogl/cogl-wayland-server.h> and <cogl/cogl-wayland-client.h> headers so
that applications can ensure they only include one of the wayland
protocol headers in a particular compilation unit. This updates clutter
accordingly to include those headers.
Reviewed-by: Neil Roberts <neil@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
When using the Wayland backend this sets a constraint that the
CoglRenderer selects the Wayland EGL winsys.
When a Wayland compositor display is set it now also sets a constraint
that the render should use EGL because only EGL renderers will set up
the required wl_drm global object.
The X11 backend now sets the X11 constraint.
Reviewed-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
Cogl now requires that all applications integrate their main loop with
Cogl so that it can listen for events from winsys. This patch just
adds Cogl's GSource to the main loop.
Reviewed-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Bragg <robert@linux.intel.com>
The ::redraw virtual function was a throwback from olden times, and has
been thoroughly replaced by the equivalent vfunc on the StageWindow
interface. We can safely remove it, now, and simplify the flow of the
redraw code inside ClutterStage.
This adds a --enable-wayland-compositor configure option which will add
support for a ClutterWaylandSurface actor which can be used to aid in
writing Wayland compositors using Clutter by providing a ClutterActor to
represent Wayland client surfaces.
Notably this configure option isn't tied into any particular backend
since conceptually the compositor support can be used in conjunction
with any clutter backend that has corresponding Cogl support.
Reviewed-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
This updates Wayland support in line with upstream changes to the Wayland
API and protocol.
This update means we no longer use the Cogl stub winsys so a lot of code
that had to manually interact with EGL and implement a swap_buffers
mechanism could be removed and instead we now depend on Cogl to handle
those things for us.
This update also adds an input device manager consistent with other
clutter backends.
Note: to use the client side "wayland" clutter backend you need to have
built Cogl with --enable-wayland-egl-platform. If Cogl has been built
with support for multiple winsys backends then you should run
applications with COGL_RENDERER=EGL in the environment.
Reviewed-by: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@linux.intel.com>
The default stage was a neat concept when we started Clutter out,
somewhere in the Jurassic era; a singleton instance that gets created at
initialization time, and remains the same for the entire duration of the
process.
Worked well enough when Clutter was a small library meant to be used to
write fullscreen media browsers, but since the introduction of multiple
stages, and Clutter being used to create all sorts of applications, the
default stage is just a vestigial remainder of that past, like an
appendix; something that complicates the layout of the code and
introduces weird behaviour, so that you notice its existence only when
something goes wrong.
Some platforms we do support, though, only have one framebuffer, so it
makes sense for them to have only one stage.
At this point, the only sane thing to do is to go through the same code
paths on all platforms, and that code path is the stage instance
creation and initialization — i.e. clutter_stage_new() (or
g_object_new() with CLUTTER_TYPE_STAGE).
For platforms that support multiple stages, nothing has changed: the stage
created by clutter_stage_get_default() will be set as the default one;
if nobody calls it, the default stage is never created, and it just
lives on as a meaningless check.
For platforms that only support one stage, clutter_stage_new() and
clutter_stage_get_default() will behave exactly the same the first time
they are called: both will create a stage, and set it as the default.
Calling clutter_stage_new() a second time is treated as a programmer
error, and will result in Clutter aborting. This is a behavioural change
because the existing behaviour or creating a new ClutterStage instance
with the same ClutterStageWindow private implementation is, simply put,
utterly braindamaged and I should have *never* had written it, and I
apologize for it. In my defence, I didn't know any better at the time.
This is the first step towards the complete deprecation of
clutter_stage_get_default() and clutter_stage_is_default(), which will
come later.
Create the device manager during the event initialization, where it
makes sense.
This allows us to get rid of the per-backend get_device_manager()
virtual function, and just store the DeviceManager pointer into the
ClutterBackend structure.
Since we use Cogl for the context creation we can now provide a default
context creation that should just work, plus a couple of hooks to allow
plugging into the creation sequence for platforms supported by Cogl that
require special handling — like foreign displays or alpha-enabled swap
chains.
The various backends have now two choices: either replace the
create_context() in its entirety, or plug themselves into the default
context creation.
