activities and scripting

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday, December 9, 2013 14:09:40 Nowardev-Team wrote:
> and when you get the whole desktop filled by the png file you get a
> wrong resolution

in a series of commits today, all the issues noted are resolve in the KDE/4.11 
branch of kde-workspace.

there is  0d905f02297db568af19d4a07a09fd3b7e556285 in 
libs/plasmagenericshell/scripting which fixes an issue where the repaint 
requests from the wallpaper were not making it to Plasma::Applet due to the 
order of initialization. this was the main problem for this issue.

meanwhile in the image plugin there were also the following commits which 
provide various cleanups and some significant performance improvements:

393b77f9fe5c1685c61cf71e29d04743eca82a2d
d240a694e8a8d99f915bc7858aa9877d55d250e9
be3869e93b38d7b0dfb17892b84ed69ae5e91441
637e11259552b4fd34078d16ca8b814bad48d22e
547c5694a1acb7a503730cc3a545d1269054906e
e7d6fef977bc123acad5d257ef0eb31a977987b4

now on startup and esp at new activity creation reading in and rendering of 
incorrectly sized wallpapers (because the size changes almost immediately 
after that) is now skipped.

delayed init of some heavyweight objects also occurs, making startup a little 
bit faster and less memory usage in the common case (SingleImage). 

also, the animation to switch between wallpapers was tweaked to feel more 
swift and pretty.

for the Plasma 2 version of the image wallpaper plugin, i’m guessing it 
probably could use similar work. the fix in the scripting should not be needed 
for Plasma 2, however.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo