Some widgets have different roles after they are constructed, so we need
to allow changing the role defined by the class. We should still avoid
setting a role after the GtkATContext has been created.
To build a better world sometimes means having to tear the old one down.
-- Alexander Pierce, "Captain America: The Winter Soldier"
ATK served us well for nearly 20 years, but the world has changed, and
GTK has changed with it. Now ATK is mostly a hindrance towards improving
the accessibility stack:
- it maps to a very specific implementation, AT-SPI, which is Linux and
Unix specific
- it requires implementing the same functionality in three different
layers of the stack: AT-SPI, ATK, and GTK
- only GTK uses it; every other Linux and Unix toolkit and application
talks to AT-SPI directly, including assistive technologies
Sadly, we cannot incrementally port GTK to a new accessibility stack;
since ATK insulates us entirely from the underlying implementation, we
cannot replace it piecemeal. Instead, we're going to remove everything
and then incrementally build on a clean slate:
- add an "accessible" interface, implemented by GTK objects directly,
which describe the accessible role and state changes for every UI
element
- add an "assistive technology context" to proxy a native accessibility
API, and assign it to every widget
- implement the AT context depending on the platform
For more information, see: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/2833
Instead of one item keeping the item + its position and sorting that
list, keep the items in 1 array and put the positions into a 2nd array.
This is generally slower while sorting, but allows multiple improvements:
1. We can replace items with keys
This allows avoiding multiple slow lookups when using complex
comparisons
2. We can keep multiple position arrays
This allows doing a sorting in the background without actually
emitting items-changed() until the array is completely sorted.
3. The main list tracks the items in the original model
So only a single memmove() is necessary there, while the old version
had to upgrade the position in every item.
Benchmarks:
sorting a model of simple strings
old new
256,000 items 256ms 268ms
512,000 items 569ms 638ms
sorting a model of file trees, directories first, by size
old new
64,000 items 350ms 364ms
128,000 items 667ms 691ms
removing half the model
old new
512,000 items 24ms 15ms
1,024,000 items 49ms 25ms
This was preventing any sort of building on macOS, even though the quartz
backend is currently non-functional. Fixing this is a pre-requisite to
getting a new macOS backend compiling.
Instead of an array of arrays, let's use an array of dictionaries; it's
easier to add optional keys without requiring to remember where to put
empty arrays.
char ** arrays are null-terminated everywhere, so make sure they are in
splice(), too.
Also fix the argument to be a const char * const * like in the
constructor.
Simplify all view model APIs and always return G_TYPE_OBJECT as the
item-type for every model.
It turns out nobody uses item-type anyway.
So instead of adding lots of APIs, forcing people to think about it and
trying to figure out how to handle filter or map models that modify item
types, just having an easy life is a better approach.
All the models need to be able to deal with any type of object going
through anyway.
Verify that the selection filter changes mirror
the selection changes of the underlying model,
as expected. These tests verify the fixes in
the previous commit.
One of the widget-factory focus tests is flaky in ci,
perhaps due to font changes causing size computations
to go slightly differently.
Drop this for now.
In particular, track which items remain in ::items-changed
signal emissions.
But the main use case is sorting, which causes items-changed(0, n, n)
to be emitted.
In 99.9% of all cases, these are just NULL, NULL.
So just do away with these arguments, people can
use the setters for the rare cases where they want
the scrolled window to use a different adjustment.
This is a list model holding strings, initialized
from a char **. String lists are buildable as well,
and that replaces the buildable support in GktDropDowns.
This is not just about consistency with other functions.
It is about avoiding reentrancy problems.
GtkListBase first doing an unselect_all() will then force the
SelectionModel to consider a state where all items are unselected
(and potentially deciding to autoselect one) and then cause a
"selection-changed" emission that unselects all items and potentially
updates all the list item widgets in the GtkListBase to the unselected
state.
After this, GtkListBase selects new items, but to the SelectionModel and
the list item widgets this looks like an enitrely new operation and
there is no way to associate it with the previous state, so the
SelectionModel cannot undo any previous actions it took when
unselecting.
And all listitem widgets will now think they were just selected and
start running animations about selecting.
This is a selection model that stores the selection
state in a boolean property of the items, and thus
persists across reordering and similar changes.
Fixes: #2826
The tooltip handling in GtkWidget is "special":
- the string is stored inside the qdata instead of the private
instance data
- the accessors call g_object_set() and g_object_get(), and the
logic is all inside the property implementation, instead of
being the other way around
- the getters return a copy of the string
- the setters don't really notify all the involved properties
The GtkWidgetAccessible uses the (escaped) tooltip text as a source for
the accessible object description, which means it has to store the
tooltip inside the object qdata, and update its copy at construction and
property notification time.
We can simplify this whole circus by making the tooltip properties (text
and markup) more idiomatic:
- notify all side-effect properties
- return a constant string from the getter
- if tooltip-text is set:
- store the text as is
- escape the markup and store it separately for the markup getter
- if tooltip-markup is set:
- store the markup as is
- parse the markup and store it separately for the text getter
The part of the testtooltips interactive test that checks that the
getters are doing the right thing is now part of the gtk testsuite, so
we ensure we don't regress in behaviour.
When exclusive is TRUE, we would not always emit a
::selection-changed signal that covers all the items
that were unselected.
This commit includes a test.
We're printing out the file we're testing once we succeed, but it's hard
to know which file caused a failure. Let's add a g_test_message()
directive so we can look in our logs.
This is a somewhat large commit that:
- Adds GtkColumnViewSorter
This is a special-purpose, private sorter implementation which sorts
according to multiple sorters, allowing each individual sorter to be
inverted. This will be used with clickable column view headers.
- Adds a read-only GtkColumnView::sorter property
The GtkColumnView creates a GtkColumnViewSorter at startup that it uses
for this property.
- Adds a writable GtkColumnViewColumn::sorter property
This allows defining per-column sorters. Whenever an application sets a
sorter for a column, the header becomes clickable and whenever
a header is clicked, that column's sorter is prepended to the list of
sorters, unless it is already the first sorter, in which case we invert
its order. No column can be in the list more than once.
When displaying accelerators, differentiate keypad
symbols with a 'KP' prefix. Fixing a 17 year old bug.
Update expected output in accelerator tests.
Fixes: #227
If we don't destroy the surface, it leaks.
GDK backends keep an extra reference on the
surface for the external resources associated
with it, and only drop it in destroy().
If you run weston with the headless backend, you get a Wayland
display with no seat, which is just fine by the protocol.
gdk_display_get_default_seat() returns NULL in this case. Various
widgets assume that we always have a seat with a keyboard and a
pointer, since that is what X guarantees. Make things survive
without that, so we can run the testsuite under a headless
Wayland compositor.
