The original implementation of ::touch-mode tested for keyboard
presence to know whether the OSK and other touch-only features were
enabled.
However that didn't pan out, every webcam, card reader and kitchen
sink like to live a second life as EV_KEY devices. This made the
detection of actual external keyboards a much harder task than it
sounds, and was thus removed in commit f8e2234ce5.
Try a different approach here, and test for pointer devices, it
doesn't matter if internal or external devices, the rationales:
- It is significantly easier to get this right, there's virtually
no devices with abs/rel axes that don't try to be a real input
device of some sorts.
- It's not as good as testing for keyboard presence, but it's the
next best thing. These usually come in pairs, except in weird
setups.
- It is better than not having anything for a number of situations:
- Non-convertible laptops with a touchscreen will get touch-mode
disabled due to touchpad presence (plus keyboard). There's
been complains about OSK triggering with those.
- Same for desktop machines with USB touchscreens, the mouse
(and presumably keyboard) attached would make touch-mode
get in the middle.
- Convertible laptops with a broken tablet-mode switch get a
chance to work on tablet modes that do disable input devices
(e.g. detachable keyboards, or via firmware)
- Kiosk machines, tablets, and other devices that have a
touchscreen but will not regularly have a mouse/keyboard
will get the touch-mode enabled.
All in all, this seems to cover more situations the way we expect it,
there's only one situation that the OSK would show where it might
not be desirable, and one that might not show when it better should:
- Tablets and kiosk machines that get one keyboard plugged, but not a
mouse, will still show the OSK, despite being able to type right
away.
- Convertible laptops with broken/unreliable tablet-mode switch (e.g.
ignored by the kernel) rely entirely on the device/firmware
characteristics to work. If after folding into tablet mode the
touchpad remains active, touch-mode will not turn on.
Fixing the tablet-mode switch on these devices should be preferred,
as that'll also make libinput magically disable the touchpad.
The latter can be worked around with the a11y toggle. The former is
merely inconvenient, and nothing prevents the user from plugging a mouse
in addition.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1710>
We can't post tasks to the input thread when cleaning up the
MetaSeatImpl, as that will make the GTask complain about adding
references to a to be purged object. Avoid this by adding an explicit
meta_seat_impl_destroy() function that handles the destruction of the
MetaSeatImpl properly.
This also does more of the cleanup in the input thread, as that is where
it was managed. Will likely not make a difference as before this
happened after tearing down the thread, but lets tear down things in the
thread they were managed for good measure.
This fixes the last log spew I see right now when terminating mutter.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1670>
Make it impossible to add individual includes of input thread objects.
This must go through meta-input-thread.h now, which should be enough
to make anyone think it twice.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1403>
They're a dime a dozen. If it gets called exclusively from the
input thread, it got one. Hopefully these breadcrumbs will be
enough so people don't lose their way here.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1403>
This (now) doesn't change anything in regards to the API that the UI
thread should access from the MetaSeatImpl. The MetaInputDeviceNative,
MetaInputSettings and MetaKeymap objects are now considered owned by
the input thread, as well as all of libinput objects.
The MetaEventSource now dispatches events in a GMainContext that is
the thread default to this thread, and all UI-thread-accessible API
(seat and virtual input device API) will be handled in a serialized
manner by that same input thread.
The MetaSeatImpl itself is still considered to be owned by the caller
thread, and all the signals that this object emits will be emitted in
the GMainContext that is default at the time of calling
meta_seat_impl_new().
The MetaInputSettings configuration changes will likewise be handled
in the input thread, close to libinput devices.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1403>
This API is the one accessed from different bits of the UI thread,
make it "async" (it's basically one-way setters, so API stays the same
in the surface) and able to run in the MetaSeatImpl main context.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1403>
Simplify the handling of numlock state, so it can be entirely handled
within the input thread. Since the saving/restoring is triggered inside
each backend code, there's no need anymore for meta_backend_set_numlock().
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1403>
Push it a little bit down to the MetaSeatNative. As both the UI thread
and the input thread are interested in dealing with the xkb_keymap and
it is not meant to be used in different threads, keep 2 separate copies
around.
The keyboard map will always be set from the UI thread, so the xkb_keymap
owned by the MetaSeatNative (owned by the UI thread) can be considered
canonical.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1403>
Wrap all keyboard state updates, and all pointer/stylus/touch cursor
position with a write lock, and ::query_state() (The only entrypoint
to this state from other threads) with a read lock.
The principle is that query_state may be called from different threads
(UI so far, but maybe KMS too in the future), while the input thread
may (or may not) be updating it. This state is fetched "atomically"
(eg. x/y will be consistently old or new, if the input thread were
updating it at the same time).
There's other places deep in backends/native that read this state,
they all will run in the input thread, so they count as "other readers"
to the other thread. Those changes are already mutually exclusive with
updates, so they don't explicitly need the RW lock.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1403>
These changes will happen in the input event management code, so let them
be emitted via the MetaSeatImpl, as that's what we'll have neat access to.
The ClutterSeat signals are now emitted from there.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1403>
Move most of the functional bits (those meant to run on a standalone
thread) to a MetaSeatImpl object. This object is managed by the MetaSeatImpl
and not exposed outside the friend MetaSeatNative/MetaInputDeviceNative/
MetaInputSettings classes.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1403>
