Since we use an FBO to render the contents of the render node tree, the
coordinate space is going to be flipped in GL. We can undo the flip by
using an appropriate projection matrix, instead of changing the sampling
coordinates in the shaders and updating all our coordinates at render
time.
Render nodes need access to rendering information like scaling factors.
If we keep render nodes separate from renderers until we submit a nodes
tree for rendering we're going to have to duplicate all that information
in a way that makes the API more complicated and fuzzier on its
semantics.
By having GskRenderer create GskRenderNode instances we can tie nodes
and renderers together; since higher layers will also have access to
the renderer instance, this does not add any burden to callers.
Additionally, if memory measurements indicate that we are spending too
much time in the allocation of new render nodes, we can now easily
implement a free-list or a renderer-specific allocator without breaking
the API.
We cannot implement GtkWidgetClass.get_render_node() in GtkContainer
without breaking the fallback path that renders a widget to a single
render node rasterization. For GtkContainer subclasses we should provide
a simple API, similar to gtk_container_propagate_draw(), that gathers
all the render nodes for each child.
The clip rectangle may have non-zero offsets, so we need to ensure that
the GskRenderNode associated to the rendered area is translated by those
same offsets.
We need a virtual function to retrieve the GskRenderNode for each
widget, which is supposed to attach its own children's GskRenderNodes.
Additionally, we want to maintain the existing GtkWidget::draw mechanism
for widgets that do not implement get_render_node() — as well as widgets
that have handlers connected to the ::draw signal.