Review Request 112142: QQuick item for live updating window thumbnails

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On Sept. 2, 2013, 1:05 p.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
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> (Updated Sept. 2, 2013, 1:05 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma and Aaron J. Seigo.
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> Description
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> New qquick item in PlasmaCore to render a live updating window
> thumbnail. The implementation uses XCB to redirect the specified
> window using the composite extension. This means a running compositor
> is not required. Through the damage extension the item tracks changes
> to the window and triggers updates of the texture. Furthermore the
> item tracks geometry changes of the window to recreate the window
> pixmap.
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> If the pixmap of the window is valid, a texture is generated from it
> using the glx texture from pixmap extension. For this a new optional
> dependency for glx is added. On platform where glx is not available
> (e.g. Windows, Linux with OpenGL ES) this will not get compiled and
> the window's icon is used instead as a fallback.
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> For more info see also the documentation of the item in the header file.
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> I plan to also add an egl variant (which is magnitudes easier) once I figure out how to compile Qt to use egl instead of glx for the xcb platform plugin.
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> Diffs
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>   CMakeLists.txt 84a7911 
>   src/declarativeimports/core/CMakeLists.txt 12c0690 
>   src/declarativeimports/core/corebindingsplugin.cpp 7bbdfe6 
>   src/declarativeimports/core/windowthumbnail.h PRE-CREATION 
>   src/declarativeimports/core/windowthumbnail.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   src/plasma/config-plasma.h.cmake f2da235 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/112142/diff/
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> Testing
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> File Attachments
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> Window and it's thumbnail
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2013/08/18/windowthumbnail.png
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> Thanks,
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> Martin Gräßlin
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