We were not sending the ID of the window that was listening for window
management (WM) events along with the WM messages. They only included
the "target" window's ID.
Since the taskbar's single window had the first window ID for its own
connection to the WindowServer, it meant that it would only receive
WM events for the first window ID in other processes as well.
This broke when I ported WindowServer to LibIPC.
Fix this by including the WM listener ID in all WM messages, and since
we're here anyway, get rid of a bunch of unnecessary indirection where
we were passing WM events through the WindowServer event loop before
sending them to the listener.
WindowServer now tracks whether windows are occluded (meaning that
they are completely covered by one or more opaque windows sitting above
them.) This state is communicated to the windows via WindowStateChanged
messages, which then allow GWindow to mark its backing store volatile.
This reduces the effective memory impact of windows that are not at all
visible to the user. Very cool. :^)
WindowServer will now send out a WindowStateChanged message to clients
when one of their windows is minimized.
This is then forwarded to the GWindow, which will try to mark its
underlying window backing store as volatile.
This allows the kernel to steal the memory used by minimized windows
in case it starts running low. Very cool! :^)
GApplication now has a palette. This palette contains all the system
theme colors by default, and is inherited by a new top-level GWidget.
New child widgets inherit their parents palette.
It is possible to override the GApplication palette, and the palette
of any GWidget.
The Palette object contains a bunch of colors, each corresponding to
a ColorRole. Each role has a convenience getter as well.
Each GWidget now has a background_role() and foreground_role(), which
are then looked up in their current palette when painting. This means
that you no longer alter the background color of a widget by setting
it directly, rather you alter either its background role, or the
widget's palette.
Color themes are loaded from .ini files in /res/themes/
The theme can be switched from the "Themes" section in the system menu.
The basic mechanism is that WindowServer broadcasts a SharedBuffer with
all of the color values of the current theme. Clients receive this with
the response to their initial WindowServer::Greet handshake.
When the theme is changed, WindowServer tells everyone by sending out
an UpdateSystemTheme message with a new SharedBuffer to use.
This does feel somewhat bloated somehow, but I'm sure we can iterate on
it over time and improve things.
To get one of the theme colors, use the Color(SystemColor) constructor:
painter.fill_rect(rect, SystemColor::HoverHighlight);
Some things don't work 100% right without a reboot. Specifically, when
constructing a GWidget, it will set its own background and foreground
colors based on the current SystemColor::Window and SystemColor::Text.
The widget is then stuck with these values, and they don't update on
system theme change, only on app restart.
All in all though, this is pretty cool. Merry Christmas! :^)
These fields are intended to carry the real meat of a drag operation,
and the "text" is just for what we show on screen (alongside the cursor
during the actual drag.)
The data field is just a String for now, but in the future we should
make it something more flexible.
When a GAction is activated by a menu, or by a toolbar button, you can
now use GAction::activator() to get a pointer to whomever activated it.
This can be used to implement context-specific behaviors in situations
where the same action is exposed through multiple paths.
This addresses an issue that was brought up in #826.
This patch enables basic drag&drop between applications.
You initiate a drag by creating a GDragOperation object and calling
exec() on it. This creates a nested event loop in the calling program
that only returns once the drag operation has ended.
On the receiving side, you get a call to GWidget::drop_event() with
a GDropEvent containing information about the dropped data.
The only data passed right now is a piece of text that's also used
to visually indicate that a drag is happening (by showing the text in
a little box that follows the mouse cursor around.)
There are things to fix here, but we're off to a nice start. :^)
Instead of passing the PIDs back and forth in a handshake "Greet"
message, just use getsockopt(SO_PEERCRED) on both sides to get the same
information from the kernel.
This is a nice little simplification of the IPC protocol, although it
does not get rid of the handshake since we still have to pass the
"client ID" from the server to each client so they know how to refer
to themselves. This might not be necessary and we might be able to get
rid of this later on.
This patch introduces code generation for the WindowServer IPC with
its clients. The client/server endpoints are defined by the two .ipc
files in Servers/WindowServer/: WindowServer.ipc and WindowClient.ipc
It now becomes significantly easier to add features and capabilities
to WindowServer since you don't have to know nearly as much about all
the intricate paths that IPC messages take between LibGUI and WSWindow.
The new system also uses significantly less IPC bandwidth since we're
now doing packed serialization instead of passing fixed-sized structs
of ~600 bytes for each message.
Some repaint coalescing optimizations are lost in this conversion and
we'll need to look at how to implement those in the new world.
The old CoreIPC::Client::Connection and CoreIPC::Server::Connection
classes are removed by this patch and replaced by use of ConnectionNG,
which will be renamed eventually.
Goodbye, old WindowServer IPC. You served us well :^)
