The shader used for computing a vignette currently has two
problems:
* The math is wrong such that the vignette isn't stretched
across the whole actor and so ends abruptly
* There is noticeable banding in its gradient
This commit corrects both problems by fixing the computing
and introducing noise dithering.
The order and way include macros were structured was chaotic, with no
real common thread between files. Try to tidy up the mess with some
common scheme, to make things look less messy.
The function is intentionally provided as macro to not require a
cast. Recently the macro was improved to check that the passed in
pointer matches the free function, so the cast to GDestroyNotify
is now even harmful.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/merge_requests/176
The brightness is about the vignette. Add a 'vignette_' prefix in order
to give more context. Keep the property name as it is, doing so we don't
break any plugin (e.g., gnome-shell).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786618
Add the word 'vignette' in order to give some context on what the
snippets do. This will be useful later when we land other snippets
for the gradient effect.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786618
Implicit conversion from int to float is not supported by
GLSL ES.
Fixes:
(gnome-shell:8954): Cogl-WARNING **: Shader compilation failed:
1:2: P0004: High precision not supported, instead compiling high precision as medium precision
4:17: S0001: Type mismatch in arithmetic operation between 'int' and 'float'
when one trigger the overview mode on Mali 400 r1p1 GPU.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745442
Not having a paint volume causes every single paint to turn into
full-stage redraw, since otherwise culling won't properly work.
Since we don't paint outside of our allocation, just use the simple
default implementation, but also return TRUE inside it.
Make the vignette options properties so they can be animated;
modify the function-call API for meta_background_actor_set_vignette()
to correspond more closely to the 3 properties.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735637
Without GLSL, we didn't apply the vignetting, which not only made the
background uniform in color, it made it much lighter. Adjust for this
and make the average brightness with the vignette effect the same
with or without GLSL.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735637
The old requirement that multiple MetaBackgroundActor objects be
layered on top of each to produce blended backgrounds resulted in
extremely inefficient drawing since the entire framebuffer had
to be read and written multiple times.
* Replace the MetaBackground ClutterContent with a plain GObject
that serves to hold the background parameters and prerender
textures to be used to draw the background. It handles
colors, gradients, and blended images, but does not handle
vignetting
* Add vignetting to MetaBackgroundActor directly.
* Add MetaBackgroundImage and MetaBackgroundImageCache to allow
multiple MetaBackground objects to share the same images
By removing the usage of ClutterContent, the following optimizations
were easy to add:
Blending is turned off when the actor is fully opaque
Nearest-neighbour filtering is used when drawing 1:1
The GLSL vignette code is slightly improved to use a vertex shader
snippet for computing the texture coordinate => position in actor
mapping.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735637
Instead of hardcoded knowledge of certain classes in MetaWindowGroup,
create a generic interface that all actors can implement to get parts of
their regions culled out during redraw, without needing any special
knowledge of how to handle a specific actor.
The names now are a bit suspect. MetaBackgroundGroup is a simple
MetaCullable that knows how to cull children, and MetaWindowGroup is the
"toplevel" cullable that computes the initial two regions. A future
cleanup here could be to merge MetaWindowGroup / MetaBackgroundGroup so
that we only have a generic MetaSimpleCullable, and move the "toplevel"
cullability to be a MetaCullableToplevel.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=714706
Background handling in GNOME is very roundabout at the moment.
gnome-settings-daemon uses gnome-desktop to read the background from
disk into a screen-sized pixmap. It then sets the XID of that pixmap
on the _XROOTPMAP_ID root window property.
mutter puts that pixmap into a texture/actor which gnome-shell then
uses.
Having the gnome-settings-daemon detour from disk to screen means we
can't easily let the compositor handle transition effects when
switching backgrounds. Also, having the background actor be
per-screen instead of per-monitor means we may have oversized
textures in certain multihead setups.
This commit changes mutter to read backgrounds from disk itself, and
it changes backgrounds to be per-monitor.
This way background handling/compositing is left to the compositor.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682427
Instead of defining CLUTTER_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_API and
COGL_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_API in individual source files, enable
them on the command line. We weren't tracking exactly what pieces of
experimental API we were using and we were using the experimental
API in most source files that used Clutter and Cogl, so the
local #defines were annoying rather than useful.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685463
Using ClutterEffect is not pratical on MetaBackgroundActor, as the FBO
redirection has a noticeable performance impact. Instead, allow adding
GLSL code directly to the pipeline used to draw the background texture.
At the same time, port MetaBackgroundActor to modern Cogl API.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669798
The experimental Cogl api cogl_texture_pixmap_new() was recently changed
so it now expects an explicit CoglContext argument and it can also
return exceptions now via a GError. This patch updates mutters use of
the api accordingly.
This was preventing Clutter from running its dispose, preventing
it from being destroyed correctly. While a major bug and possibly
big memory leak, the most obvious effect was the message that Clutter
spat out:
Clutter-CRITICAL **: clutter_actor_iter_next: assertion `ri->age == ri->root->priv->age' failed
Since we never disposed the actor correctly, it was never removed
from its parent, and the age wasn't updated correctly.
Instead of requiring a singleton MetaBackgroundActor for the screen,
allow creating multiple copies that internally share a single
CoglTexture behind the scenes. This will be useful for allowing
multiple views of the screen background with different rendering
options.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=656433
When there was no root background pixmap, we were using a 1x1 repeating
texture as a simple way of drawing a solid color without adding a
second code path. However, when that 1x1 texture was combined into
a larger "atlas texture", hardware repeat couldn't be used, so a
small inefficiency from this approach became an enormous inefficiency
as clutter drew every pixel of the background as a separate rectangle.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652507
If mutter is going to be a "real" library, then it should install its
includes so that users can do
#include <meta/display.h>
rather than
#include <display.h>
So rename the includedir accordingly, move src/include to src/meta,
and fix up all internal references.
There were a handful of header files in src/include that were not
installed; this appears to have been part of a plan to keep core/,
ui/, and compositor/ from looking at each others' private includes,
but that wasn't really working anyway. So move all non-installed
headers back into core/ or ui/.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643959
Since we aren't depending on Clutter 1.5 or using the new
CoglPipeline name elsewhere, we need to stick to the old
COGL_MATERIAL_WRAP_MODE_* names, which are provided with
compatibility defines in Clutter 1.4.
Pointed out by Rico Tzschichholz
If we have repeats on for a full-sized image, then if the background
is displayed scaled (for example, in a desktop preview mode) then we
can get artifacts along the edge of the background where the repeat
of the opposite edge is blended in by bilinear scaling. So turn off
repeats when the screen and background image sizes match.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=634833
Add code to track and draw the root window background. The advantage of doing
it here as compared to in a plugin is that we can use the visiblity smarts
of MetaWindowGroup to optimize out drawing the background when obscured.
If handling other than tracking the _XROOTPMAP_ID property is desired in the
future, more functionality like setting the background from a file or doing
cross-fades can be added.
The new background actor is exposed to plugins via meta_plugin_get_background_actor()
similar to other exposed actors to allow cloning the background for use in
other displays. The actual class is not installed for public consumption at
the moment since it has no useful methods.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=634833
