[RFC] idle animation interface and implementation

[Kristian Høgsberg]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 11:18:09 +0200
> Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 14:42:32 +0200
>> Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > here is the patch set that integrates wscreensaver into the demo
>> > compositor:
>> > - interface implementation and surface type handling: screensaver
>> >   surface only mapped during idle or lock screen
>> > - automatic launch and kill
>> > - automatic launch is opt-in, you need to enable it in your
>> >   wayland-desktop-shell.ini
>> > - works also with manual launch of wscreensaver
>> > - separate timeouts for screen locking and animation
>> > - all rendering stops on animation timeout
>> > - supports multiple outputs with independent animations
>> >
>> > The set also includes necessary bug fixes, and is built on top of my
>> > for-krh-1 branch.
>>
>> Since for-krh-1 was merged, and there are also other changes
>> upstream, I have pushed a rebased branch as
>>
>>       screensaver-v3
>
> Rebased to upstream again, dropped the HACK patch that worked around a
> bug in Cairo, and rewrote some patches to better follow the naming
> convention. The new branch is:
>
> git://git.collabora.co.uk/git/user/pq/wayland-demos.git screensaver-v4
>
> As for the Cairo issue with decorationless toytoolkit apps that use
> EGL, I quote
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2011-December/001669.html
>
>  The fix in Cairo is commit 909f4a4a7f0a6082f4f1e9edaba8034a819a12ec
>  "gl: Set the destination for swap buffers, required by EGL at least".
> ...
>  Unfortunately, at the time of writing this, the Cairo master HEAD is
>  still too broken in the GL backend to be used. Therefore I suggest to
>  use Cairo 9bdfae6e218185dd9cc2770f5e7d4ca887ce and add the above fix on
>  top.
>
> Without that fix in Cairo, wscreensaver does not work in the
> screensaver (default) mode.

Thanks for all the rebasing and digging into the cairo issue.  I've
just merged your screensaver branch and it all works very nicely.

Kristian