Review Request 126291: initial implementation of a platform plugin for OS X (WIP)

[René J.V. Bertin]

> On Feb. 25, 2016, 8:26 a.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > src/kwindowsystem.cpp, lines 465-467
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126291/diff/4/?file=445231#file445231line465>
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> >     I would prefer to not introduce new platform specific code in the shared part.
> >     
> >     The idea you have here is right, but it's not OSX specific, the same applies for e.g. Wayland
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> René J.V. Bertin wrote:
>     I agree. This function should probably be moved to the plugin. That's just not a responsability I'd love to take for X11 and Wayland, otherwise I'd have implemented this in my patch.
>     
>     Can you or one of the other KWindowSystem devs take care of this on the current supported platforms, so that I can adapt this patch?
> 
> René J.V. Bertin wrote:
>     Ping?

Dropping this part for now then.


- René J.V.


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On Dec. 27, 2016, 5 p.m., René J.V. Bertin wrote:
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> (Updated Dec. 27, 2016, 5 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Software on Mac OS X and KDE Frameworks.
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> Repository: kwindowsystem
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> Description
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> KWindowSystem has been lacking a platform plugin for OS X. This RR presents a "backport" of the modified KDE4 KWindowSystem implementation that has been used in the MacPorts kdelibs4 port for the last 2 or 3 (or more) years.
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> I have made some initial steps to remove deprecated Carbon API calls, but this is clearly a work in progress.
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> Open questions include
> - is there any justification to run an event handler (or Cocoa observer) to keep track of running applications, possibly even listing all their open windows?
> - is there any use for the Qt event listener framework (cf. the NETEventFilter in the X11 plugin)? I haven't yet had time to try to figure out what this "could be good for", and am very open to suggestions in this departments.
> - one application for such an event filter would be a listener that catches the opening and closing of all windows by the running process, and keeps track of their `WId`s. A new method could then be added (to `KWindowInfo`?) to distinguish `WId`s created by the running application from "foreign" ones (useful also on Wayland and MS Windows).
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> `KWindowSystem::setMainWindow` should become a front for payload provided by the plugins. I'll leave that to the regular/official maintainer(s) of this framework.
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> This code could probably do with *lots* of comments; I'll try to add them as questions about this or that bit of code arise.
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> Diffs
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>   src/kwindowsystem.h a282ecd 
>   src/kwindowsystem.cpp fda1682 
>   src/platforms/osx/CMakeLists.txt 4fc3347 
>   src/platforms/osx/cocoa.json PRE-CREATION 
>   src/platforms/osx/kkeyserver.cpp 3ddb921 
>   src/platforms/osx/kwindowinfo.cpp e8555bb 
>   src/platforms/osx/kwindowinfo.mm PRE-CREATION 
>   src/platforms/osx/kwindowinfo_mac_p.h c8f307e 
>   src/platforms/osx/kwindowinfo_p_cocoa.h PRE-CREATION 
>   src/platforms/osx/kwindowsystem.cpp 1758829 
>   src/platforms/osx/kwindowsystem_mac_p.h PRE-CREATION 
>   src/platforms/osx/kwindowsystem_macobjc.mm PRE-CREATION 
>   src/platforms/osx/kwindowsystem_p_cocoa.h PRE-CREATION 
>   src/platforms/osx/plugin.h PRE-CREATION 
>   src/platforms/osx/plugin.cpp PRE-CREATION 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126291/diff/
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> Testing
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> On OS X 10.9.5 with Qt 5.5.1 and frameworks 5.16.0 .
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> Thanks,
> 
> René J.V. Bertin
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