Review Request 115137: Provide information about the active screen in KWindowSystem

[Kevin Ottens]

> On Feb. 20, 2014, 12:07 p.m., Kevin Ottens wrote:
> > Aren't the concern raised initially on that patch addressed now? Please make a second round of reviews or ship it.

More than a week with no reaction, should it be discarded?


- Kevin


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On Jan. 31, 2014, 1:01 p.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
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> (Updated Jan. 31, 2014, 1:01 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks, kdewin and kwin.
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> Repository: kwindowsystem
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> Description
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> The rational for these changes is based on the discussion in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.plasma/27579/
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> Plasma needs to know which is the active screen and so far only KWin knows it, so we need to make everybody aware of it.
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> Add convenient wrapper for active screen to KWindowSystem
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> A method is added to get the identifier of the active screen as a
> QString and a signal whenever the active screen changes. This method
> is only provided for X11, on Windows and Mac a null QString is returned
> as the identifier.
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> Add an active screen property to NETRootInfo
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> The active screen is intended to be set by KWin to the active screen
> it's using. This can be used by a Client to manually position e.g.
> override redirect windows on the active screen. It's intended as a help
> for multi-screen setups where a Client can only do guesses on where to
> position e.g. a notification window.
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> It's a KDE specific extension as property _KDE_NET_ACTIVE_SCREEN and
> announced in the supported properties.
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> Diffs
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>   tests/activeoutputtest.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   tests/CMakeLists.txt ce68cc505a69ea9a3cf645e9ae587bd89abe1648 
>   src/netwm_p.h 41792b330f7405034f4d51fb31a4de5dd674b6d0 
>   src/netwm_def.h 8b1ccb8bd731aefb9559c8f2b450337b0312ed4d 
>   src/netwm.cpp 84eb137492e0afaaac80e8d26561fd8f8aff9c27 
>   src/netwm.h 393a29de3153a8b291b9fb249bd3eaeb1ba4e7d5 
>   src/kwindowsystem_x11.cpp 01c78c1debf95d5a176e2153139da19abf383c41 
>   src/kwindowsystem_win.cpp 96148b2d808396a3046204e55fd19d767db017c5 
>   autotests/netrootinfotestwm.cpp 120fbee92d0b22862d8ce746b3b30891ecd9f056 
>   src/kwindowsystem.h 3de0fea179dd468a78a265808fc64704027ec30d 
>   src/kwindowsystem_mac.cpp 8bd2ac763fa26ba49e7733fc3ba93e755383928c 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/115137/diff/
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> Testing
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> * wm part of NETWM is unit tested
> * KWindowSystem is only compile tested (unit testing is difficult as we need a window manager which supports this property which is at the moment of this writing: none)
> * Windows and Mac is not even compile tested, that's why kdewin is included in the review. If you have the time for it, please do a compile test.
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> Thanks,
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> Martin Gräßlin
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