Review Request 125655: Xembed SNI Proxy

[David Edmundson]

> On Oct. 16, 2015, 12:34 p.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > xembedsniproxy/sniproxy.cpp, lines 180-183
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125655/diff/1/?file=411304#file411304line180>
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> >     maybe you could use the sync protocol?

xsync would make sense, except there doesn't seem to be one in XCB.

as for the sync protocol, http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/xextproto/sync.html#Types I don't see how I would use that here?


- David


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On Oct. 16, 2015, 11:22 a.m., David Edmundson wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 16, 2015, 11:22 a.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Repository: plasma-workspace
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> Description
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> The goal of this project is to make xembed system trays available in Plasma.
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> This is to allow legacy apps (xchat, pidgin, tuxguitar) etc. system trays[1] available in Plasma which only supports StatusNotifierItem [2].
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> Ideally we also want this to work in an xwayland session, making X system tray icons available even when plasmashell only has a wayland connection.
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> How it works (in theory)
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> * We register a window as a system tray container
> * We render embeded windows composited offscreen
> * We render contents into an image and send this over DBus via the SNI protocol
> * XDamage events trigger a repaint
> * Activate and context menu events are replyed via X send event into the embedded container as left and right clicks
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> Code is a mix of hacks and bodges bashing client apps into place, and I happily acknowledge it looks pretty bad. Unfotunately most of it seems to be needed, but I'd love to be proved wrong on most of it.
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> CMakeLists changes are obviously currently wrong, I can strip half of find_packages and I need an add_subdirectory in the root file, but it's easier for me to sync with the separate repo mirror this way till we're close to merging. I expect this to take quite some revisions.
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> Diffs
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>   xembedsniproxy/CMakeLists.txt PRE-CREATION 
>   xembedsniproxy/Readme.md PRE-CREATION 
>   xembedsniproxy/fdoselectionmanager.h PRE-CREATION 
>   xembedsniproxy/fdoselectionmanager.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   xembedsniproxy/main.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   xembedsniproxy/org.kde.StatusNotifierItem.xml PRE-CREATION 
>   xembedsniproxy/org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher.xml PRE-CREATION 
>   xembedsniproxy/snidbus.h PRE-CREATION 
>   xembedsniproxy/snidbus.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   xembedsniproxy/sniproxy.h PRE-CREATION 
>   xembedsniproxy/sniproxy.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   xembedsniproxy/xcbutils.h PRE-CREATION 
>   xembedsniproxy/xembedsniproxy.desktop PRE-CREATION 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125655/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> David Edmundson
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