The upstream GIR for g_weak_ref_get is incorrect - it does not allow the
returned value to be NULL. This PR pulls in a new version of our GObject
bindings with that patched and improves the safety of dealing with the
command palette weak reference held by the window.
See ianprime0509/zig-gobject#117
This continues #8202 by fixing two of the known issues: `goto_split` key
binds work and closing a split moves focus to the proper place.
A big improvement in this PR is that for the first time ever in our GTK
backend, the up/down/left/right `goto_split` bindings **use spatial
navigation.** "Spatial navigation" means that the direction to move
focus is done based on the nearest split _visually_ from the current
split, rather than via a tree traversal. We did this on macOS a couple
months ago, with a lot more details there: #7523
Similar to macOS, the spatial navigation is currently based on top-left
corner. Now that our split tree is implemented in Zig though it should
be a lot easier for us to work in the current cursor position as the
reference point.
~~🚧 TODO: Going to add some unit tests for the spatial navigation before
merge.~~
This adds on to our existing foundations from #8165 and adds the ability
to create and close splits. We're still missing split navigation,
resizing via keybindings, etc. And there are a number of known issues
(listed below). But this is a strict improvement from where we're at and
includes a number of important bug fixes to our split tree.
The only nasty thing in this PR is that I learned that GTK _did not
like_ rebuilding our split widget tree on every data model change. I
don't know enough about how all the re-parenting plus size allocation
interactions work together. As a compromise, this PR adds a listener,
waits for our surface tree to "settle" by having all surfaces have no
parents, then schedules a single rebuild after that. This works well,
but results in some noticeable flashing for a frame or so. I think we
can improve this later, it works completely well enough.
Importantly, all of this is Valgrind clean. I long suspected our splits
on legacy are NOT free of leaks, but never proved it, so this makes me
happy.
## Demo
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e231d89f-581e-486b-ade0-1d7e6795262e
## Known Issues
I may fix this in this PR, I may follow up.
- [ ] Focus doesn't go to the right place after closing a split
- [x] Divider with a transparent background is transparent
- [x] Close split doesn't show any close confirmation dialog
- Missing features:
* [ ] Equalize splits
* [ ] Resize splits keybind (manual mouse action works fine)
* [ ] Go to split keybind
Freetype encodes some font names internally in formats other than UTF-8.
This only affects debug logs but it was annoying me so I fixed it. There
may be other encodings that might need to be dealt with but I took care
of the one that I ran across.
Freetype encodes some font names internally in formats other than UTF-8.
This only affects debug logs but it was annoying me so I fixed it. There
may be other encodings that might need to be dealt with but I took care
of the one that I ran across.
This avoids jitter when resizing splits. I didn't see any jitter before
splits but conceptually its possible. The issue is that since we're
updating the overlay DURING A RESIZE, changing the dimensions of any
part of the widget tree causes GTK warnings and a bunch of laggy
updates.
Instead, we copy the label text to a property and update it on the idle
callback along with everything else. This also provides a natural
debounce to the label.
This avoids jitter when resizing splits. I didn't see any jitter before
splits but conceptually its possible. The issue is that since we're
updating the overlay DURING A RESIZE, changing the dimensions of any
part of the widget tree causes GTK warnings and a bunch of laggy
updates.
Instead, we copy the label text to a property and update it on the idle
callback along with everything else. This also provides a natural
debounce to the label.
This also fixes a bug where we were setting custom cursors on the wrong
gtk widget, this showed up most terribly with `mouse-hide-while-typing`
where the mouse would never reappear.
This PR adds a "tabs" title bar style similar to the macOS title bar
style. When `gtk-titlebar-style=tabs` the title bar and the tab bar will
be merged together.
The config entry for controlling this is kept separate from macOS as
macOS has more styles defined that don't map to a GTK title bar style
and it's likely that users that use both macOS and GTK would want
different settings for each platform.
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