Instead of relying on cairo_t to perform drawing from our backing
image surface to the Core Graphics context, we can convert the
cairo_image_surface_t into a CGImageRef without having to copy
data if we are certain of the alignment of the image up front.
Without this, there are many situations, based on the size of the
window that could cause cairo to take a slow path and malloc/copy
the data to ensure that alignment.
The previous commit titled "macos: align image surface rowstride to
16-bytes" ensures that this invariant is true so that our drawing
code can assume we can reference the framebuffer from the
cairo_image_surface_t using a CGDataProvider.
Since GdkMacosCairoContext and GdkMacosCairoSubview are coordinating,
we can also setup the transformation/scale early when drawing the
cairo_image_surface_t instead of when copying it to Core Graphics.
Furthermore, the CGImageRef is created with an RGB colorspace so
that we are not performing colorspace conversion to the output
device. We don't get color matching between displays, but we don't
expect that anyway, particularly with the software renderer.
The Cairo implementation for the Macos backend uses a toplevel
window with full transparency and a series of NSView to create opaque
regions. This improves compositor performance because it allows the
display server to avoid costly blends.
However, we want to ensure we clip better when exposing the
transparent region so that we only expose the shadows/corners as
necessary.
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.
