Unify the many copies of diff_with_file in one source
file, and patch it to detect diff at runtime and fall
back to a simple strcmp if we don't have it. Make all
tests use this new testutils.c, and stop requiring
diff for building the tests.
This should let us allow to build on Windows with the
default value for -Dbuild-tests.
Check whether we really have x11 and wayland enabled before we try to setup the
tests to use these respective GDK backends, and only attempt to setup tests
running with the Broadway backend if it has been enabled.
Also, add a setup for running tests with the GDK-Win32 backend on Windows, for
builds that target Windows.
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
Add test setups that set the GDK_BACKEND and
TEST_OUTPUT_SUBDIR environment variables.
This lets use run
meson test --setup x11 --suite reftest
meson test --setup wayland --suite reftest
and the output will be nicely separated.
We still need to do compositor / display server
setup from the outside.
