Using the mode allows better detection of refresh rate and refresh
interval for the CVDisplayLink bridge to GdkFrameClock. Using it can help
ensure that our 144hz displays can actually reach that rather than falling
back to just 60hz.
This will also need future commits to rework the displaylink source to be
per-monitor.
Currently we're using a display link that is for all active displays which
is just the display server trying to find some timings that try to overlap
as many as possible.
That was fine for a prototype, but we really need to do better for
situations with mixed frame rate (such as 60hz and 120hz promotion
displays). Additionally, the 144hz external monitor I have will never
reach 144hz using the current design.
This is just the first step in changing this, but the goal is to have
one of these attached to each GdkMacosMonitor which we can then use to
thaw surfaces specific to that monitor.
This is fairly substantial rewrite of the GDK backend for quartz and
renamed to macOS to allow for a greenfield implementation.
Many things have come across from the quartz implementation fairly
intact such as the eventloop integration design and discovery of
event windows from the NSEvent.
However much has been changed to fit in with the new GDK design and
how removal of child GdkWindow have been completely eliminated.
Furthermore, the new GdkPopup allows for regular NSWindow to be used
to provide popovers unlike the previous implementation.
The object design more closely follows the ideal for a GDK backend.
Views have been broken out into subclasses so that we can support
multiple GSK renderer paths such as GL and Cairo (and Metal in the
future). However mixed mode GL and Cairo will not be supported. Currently
only the Cairo renderer has been implemented.
A new frame clock implementation using CVDisplayLink provides more
accurate information about when to draw drawing the next frame. Some
testing will need to be done here to understand the power implications
of this.
This implementation has also gained edge snapping for CSD windows. Some
work was also done to ensure that CSD windows have opaque regions
registered with the display server.
** This is still very much a work-in-progress **
Some outstanding work that needs to be done:
- Finish a GL context for macOS and alternate NSView for GL rendering
(possibly using speciailized CALayer for OpenGL).
- Input rework to ensure that we don't loose remapping of keys that was
dropped from GDK during GTK 4 development.
- Make sure input methods continue to work.
- Drag-n-Drop is still very much a work in progress
- High resolution input scrolling needs various work in GDK to land
first before we can plumb that to NSEvent.
- gtk/ has a number of things based on GDK_WINDOWING_QUARTZ that need
to be updated to use the macOS backend.
But this is good enough to start playing with and breaking things which
is what I'd like to see.
