<Swing Dev> Review-request for 8145547: JEP 283: [AWT/Swing] Conditional support for GTK 3 on Linux

Phil Race philip.race at oracle.com
Wed Mar 16 22:11:56 UTC 2016


This all sounds reasonable so I am OK with the changes.

-phil.

On 03/16/2016 10:52 AM, Semyon Sadetsky wrote:
> Hi Phil,
>
> Thank for review. You will find my reply below in the text.
>
> The updated webrev is 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ssadetsky/8145547/webrev.01/
> It also contains:
> - new properties jdk.gtk.version and jdk.gtk.verbose
> - appearance tuning for Ubuntu 15 (GTK 3.14). It may require more but 
> we can do this later as a separate bug.
> The main implementation was done for Ubuntu 14.05 LTS (GTK 3.10) and 
> then tuned for OEL 7 (GTK 3.8). Each minor GTK version may have some 
> appearance changes.
>
> On 3/15/2016 10:39 PM, Phil Race wrote:
>> There is a lot to read here. I think I need to patch and try it but 
>> first ...
>>
>> Two high level questions :
>> 1) Have you verified that this behaves properly (or no worse than
>> currently) with -Djava.awt.headless=true since Swing components
>> are supposed to be able to draw off-screen in headless mode .. and
>> yet a dependency on GTK and its dependency on xlibraries seems to mean
>> that you can't load GTK in this case.
>> BTW I think it may be painful to get them to layout in such a case
>> but that's another issue.
> I tested it by painting to a BufferedImage. Seems it is enough.
>>
>> 2) Have you tried a hi-dpi system ?
> Yes I have. It is identical to the existing GTK2 based appearance.
>>
>> 3) Have you submitted a JPRT job ? It is essential to know that this
>> builds cleanly on the "official" compilation environment.
> I will do this before the push. I think it will be OK because I did 
> not use any new C constructs and the new libraries are linked dynamically.
>> 4)I expect you ran Swingset2 + GTK L&F but have you run any of the 
>> regression test suite ?
> Yes I ran javax/swing tests but many of them fails with GTK2 as well. 
> With GTK3 the result was the same except for some unstable tests. 
> Unity desktop has new window decorations like borderless windows which 
> are resized by dragging the outer window shadow, invisible overlay 
> scrollbars, etc. Many tests written for old window decorations fails.
>>
>> Minor comments :
>>
>> GTKEngine.java
>>
>>  494         Container parent = context.getComponent().getParent();
>>  495         if(GTKLookAndFeel.is3()) {
>>  496             if (parent != null && parent.getParent() instanceof 
>> JComboBox) {
>>  497                 if (parent.getParent().hasFocus()) {
>>  498                     synthState |= SynthConstants.FOCUSED;
>>  499                 }
>>  500             }
>>  501         }
>>
>> GTKPainter.java
>>
>> 746         if (GTKLookAndFeel.is3()) {
>>  747             if (slider.getOrientation() == JSlider.VERTICAL) {
>>  748                 y += 1;
>>  749                 h -= 2;
>>  750             } else {
>>  751                 x += 1;
>>  752                 w -= 2;
>>  753             }
>>  754         }
>>
>> I don't know where these numbers come from or what coordinate system
>> is being used here but it seems you are changing them for gtk 2.2 as 
>> well as 3
>> Can you speak to this ?
> It is an appearance tuning for GTK3. I didn't change it for GTK2, why 
> do you think so?
> This was used before my fix as well, for example
>
>                     if (containerParent instanceof JComboBox) {
>                         x += (focusSize + 2);
>                         y += (focusSize + 1);
>                         w -= (2 * focusSize + 1);
>                         h -= (2 * focusSize + 2);
>                     } else {
>                         x += focusSize;
>                         y += focusSize;
>                         w -= 2 * focusSize;
>                         h -= 2 * focusSize;
>                     }
>
> The only place where I changed the existing GTK2 appearance is:
>
> 1121         CLASS_SPECIFIC_MAP.put("Slider.thumbWidth", "slider-length");
>
>  in GTKStyle.java, because this property was omitted by mistake.
>>
>> GTKStyle.java
>>
>> 735         if(!GTKLookAndFeel.is3()) {
>>
>> 840      } else if(GTKLookAndFeel.is3() && 
>> "ComboBox.forceOpaque".equals(key)) {
>>
>>
>> we prefer a space between "if" and "("
> Accepted.
>>
>> sun_awt_X11_GtkFileDialogPeer.c
>>
>>  392     if (gtk->gtk_check_version(2, 8, 0) == NULL) {
>>
>>
>> Maybe I am not looking at the right fn but I thought I saw
>> this fn return a boolean so a check against NULL looks wrong.
> The declaration is in GtkApi struct of gtk_interface.h. It returns 
> char*. NULL means that the version is compatible.
>>
>>  393 
>> gtk->gtk_file_chooser_set_do_overwrite_confirmation(GTK_FILE_CHOOSER(
>>  394                 dialog), TRUE);
>>
>>
>> You didn't add this but it is awfully specific about the GTK version and
>> I wonder if this test is doing what it should be doing on GTK 3?
> Accepted.
>>
>> It is interesting that some equivalent looking Java level dialog 
>> checking in XToolkit.java
>> checked for 3.0 too ..
>>
>> swing_GTKEngine.c :
>>
>>   30 /* Static buffer for conversion from java.lang.String to UTF-8 */
>>   31 static char convertionBuffer[CONV_BUFFER_SIZE];
>>
>> So the variable name should be spelt conversionBuffer.
> Accepted.
>>
>> awt_UNIXToolkit.c
>>
>> < 287 free(ret);
>>
>> You deleted this free(). Is that correct ? It seems to imply
>> you now expect a boolean return as discussed above and
>> so in that case NULL looks odd here (line 260) too.
> The JNI exported method returns boolean while the GTK method returns 
> char*. free() is deleted intentionally according to the GTK docs it 
> belongs to the library and should not be freed by user code.
>>
>> gtk3_interface.h :
>>
>>   36 #define G_PI 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751
>>
>> I don't think that is completely accurate :-) And I should have 
>> reviewed this yesterday [1].
> :) This is glib's definition I just copied.
>
> --Semyon
>>
>> -phil.
>>
>> [1] http://www.piday.org/
>>
>>
>> On 03/05/2016 01:14 PM, Semyon Sadetsky wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Please review fix for JDK9:
>>>
>>> bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8145547
>>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ssadetsky/8145547/webrev.00/
>>>
>>> The fix contains GTK3 based implementation for Swing GTK LnF, AWT 
>>> FileChooser for Linux and AWT Robot for Linux.
>>> Also the new system property is added to request specific GTK 
>>> version swing.gtk.version.
>>>
>>> --Semyon
>>
>

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