Review Request 126101: allow loading backends in-process

[Àlex Fiestas]

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src/backendmanager.cpp (lines 114 - 120)
<https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126101/#comment60776>

    Is this code duplicated? It seems like the code I wrote years ago and I guess now we need it in two places, the out and in process loaders, no?


- Àlex Fiestas


On nov. 20, 2015, 12:16 a.m., Sebastian Kügler wrote:
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> (Updated nov. 20, 2015, 12:16 a.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma, Solid, Àlex Fiestas, Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Daniel Vrátil, and Martin Gräßlin.
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> Repository: libkscreen
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> Description
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> This patchset adds in-process operation to libkscreen
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> purpose:
> - allow easier debugging
> - for some backends (qscreen, upcoming kwayland) the out of process operation is not necessary since these backends are well-shielded
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> This implementation is backwards compatible and opt-in for running setups.
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> If the user exports KSCREEN_BACKEND_INPROCESS=1 before running, all operations will be done in process. Otherwise, the out-of-process mode is used.
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> Changes revolve around the ConfigOperations, the BackendManager (which "factories" the backends, either in- or out-of-process), and the plugin loading logic
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> Autotests should cover all the cases (and actually a few currently unsupported ones, such as using different backends in the same process).
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> Details on performance, etc.: http://vizzzion.org/blog/2015/11/wayland-and-libkscreen-benchmarks/
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> Diffs
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>   CMakeLists.txt 86a0965 
>   autotests/CMakeLists.txt 69af7f0 
>   autotests/testconfigmonitor.cpp a051226 
>   autotests/testinprocess.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   autotests/testqscreenbackend.cpp da4dbae 
>   autotests/testscreenconfig.cpp ecbcedf 
>   autotests/testxrandr.cpp b9b838a 
>   backends/fake/fake.cpp 60264dd 
>   src/backendlauncher/backendloader.cpp 52051df 
>   src/backendmanager.cpp ca9c746 
>   src/backendmanager_p.h c6418e2 
>   src/config.cpp 75d947d 
>   src/configmonitor.h b6f1189 
>   src/configmonitor.cpp a14bc70 
>   src/configoperation.h 2405d79 
>   src/configoperation.cpp 87fe141 
>   src/configoperation_p.h afdc462 
>   src/getconfigoperation.h c85bfaa 
>   src/getconfigoperation.cpp 22f92b4 
>   src/output.cpp bd381fa 
>   src/setconfigoperation.h 020a990 
>   src/setconfigoperation.cpp 6ea944f 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126101/diff/
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> Testing
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> Added a ton of autotests, made sure all existing ones pass.
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> tried "KSCREEN_BACKEND_INPROCESS=1 kcmshell5 kscreen", all working as expected.
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> Thanks,
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> Sebastian Kügler
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