Port keystates to use QtWayland's generator
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Authored by apol on Jul 10 2019, 1:19 AM.

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Saves us some of the boilerplate code

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The plasmoid still works

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apol created this revision.Jul 10 2019, 1:19 AM
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apol updated this revision to Diff 61478.Jul 10 2019, 1:21 AM

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apol added a comment.Jul 10 2019, 1:22 AM

As discussed in the Plasma sprint.
Removes some boilerplate code and turns it into C++ overrides.

As some background:

At a recent Plasma sprint, one comment was that adding protocols to KWayland was an absolute pain involving writing a tonne of boiler plate. My experience adding a protocol to Qt was relatively painless.

We said we'd try on a really simple protocol.

IMHO this looks encouraging.

Obviously having a mix of styles isn't great, but something has to be first.


One thing we need to resolve is

QtWaylandServer::org_kde_kwin_keystate
will call init which will call wl_global_create

Global::Private will call wl_global_create

Calling that twice is wrong.

apol added a comment.Oct 10 2019, 10:29 PM

As some background:

At a recent Plasma sprint, one comment was that adding protocols to KWayland was an absolute pain involving writing a tonne of boiler plate. My experience adding a protocol to Qt was relatively painless.

We said we'd try on a really simple protocol.

IMHO this looks encouraging.

Obviously having a mix of styles isn't great, but something has to be first.


One thing we need to resolve is

QtWaylandServer::org_kde_kwin_keystate

will call init which will call wl_global_create

Global::Private will call wl_global_create

Calling that twice is wrong.

I was looking into this and realised it's not really easy to solve. The reason is that KWayland::Server::Global was designed to be able to expose the wl_global as if it was useful, but this is something you never do. The wl_global is private on the generated code so we can't access it. I'll provide a workaround for now to keep the conversation alive, but I'd say at least operator wl_global*(); should get deprecated.

apol updated this revision to Diff 67670.Oct 10 2019, 10:51 PM

Just don't use KWayland::Global

Lets generated code do its thing already

apol updated this revision to Diff 67671.Oct 10 2019, 11:19 PM

Unnecessary change

apol abandoned this revision.Jun 26 2020, 6:05 PM

Moved to invent for kwayland-server