Review Request 115903: slidingpopups claim windowClosedGrabRole earlier

[Martin Gräßlin]

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Ship it!


Ship It!

- Martin Gräßlin


On Feb. 20, 2014, 2:33 p.m., Sebastian Kügler wrote:
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> (Updated Feb. 20, 2014, 2:33 p.m.)
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> Review request for kwin and Plasma.
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> Bugs: 329991
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329991
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> Repository: kde-workspace
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> Description
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> slidingpopups claim windowClosedGrabRole earlier
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> This seems like a more proper fix for the flickering issue in the
> sliding popups effect. The problem is that slidingpopups grabs the
> window in windowClosed, the fade effect checks it there, which makes
> it racy.
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> In my tests, I've not seen this problem with the WindowAddedGrab, but
> as far as I understand, the problem may well be present there as well.
> (And my proposed trick doesn't work.) I've not seen this happening in my
> debugging, however. The problem there is also less visible since the
> transparency curves go into the same direction, and are more "in line
> with each other".
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> So, proposed fix: Move the setData(WindowClosedGrabRole, ...) call from
> windowClosed into windowAdded, which makes sure it's set whenever the
> window goes away.
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> constness for list
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> Force backgroundcontrast during slidingpopup animations
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> This fixes the sliding popups losing their contrast effect when
> animating, less flicker.
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> In this patch, we temporarily force the contrast effect on, but only if
> it hasn't been explicitely disabled. As soon as the animation stops, the
> force flag is disabled again. For disappearing windows, we just set the
> flag in the same way, but skip over the bookkeeping, since the window is
> going to be deleted, anyway.
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> Diffs
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>   kwin/effects/slidingpopups/slidingpopups.cpp 99c3bfe 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/115903/diff/
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> Testing
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> No flickering observed anymore when closing the window. No side-effects visible. With print-debugging, I verified that the WindowClosedGrabRole flag is now picked up.
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> Thanks,
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> Sebastian Kügler
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