This is a tiny bar at the left of the taskbar where you can put
your most used apps to launch them with a single click. In a way,
it's another replacement for the Launcher, in addition to the app
menu. Unlike the launcher and the menu, it's not meant to be the
primary way to launch apps; it's only a faster way to launch a few
most often used utilities.
Okay, I've spent a whole day on this now, and it finally kinda works!
With this patch, CObject and all of its derived classes are reference
counted instead of tree-owned.
The previous, Qt-like model was nice and familiar, but ultimately also
outdated and difficult to reason about.
CObject-derived types should now be stored in RefPtr/NonnullRefPtr and
each class can be constructed using the forwarding construct() helper:
auto widget = GWidget::construct(parent_widget);
Note that construct() simply forwards all arguments to an existing
constructor. It is inserted into each class by the C_OBJECT macro,
see CObject.h to understand how that works.
CObject::delete_later() disappears in this patch, as there is no longer
a single logical owner of a CObject.
This macro goes at the top of every CObject-derived class like so:
class SomeClass : public CObject {
C_OBJECT(SomeClass)
public:
...
At the moment, all it does is create an override for the class_name() getter
but in the future this will be used to automatically insert member functions
into these classes.
Also run it across the whole tree to get everything using the One True Style.
We don't yet run this in an automated fashion as it's a little slow, but
there is a snippet to do so in makeall.sh.
I originally thought I would do this inside WindowServer, but let's try to
make it as a standalone app that communicates with WindowServer instead.
That will allow us to use LibGUI. :^)
