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gtk3 vclplug, some more gesture support

Now gtk3 long-press support to go with swipe

With the demo that a long-press in presentation mode will bring up the context menu for switching between using the pointer for draw-on-slide vs normal slide navigation.

Syndicated 2015-03-26 14:53:00 (Updated 2015-03-26 14:53:33) from Caolán McNamara

gtk3 vclplug, basic gesture support

gtk3's gesture support is the functionality I'm actually interested in, so now that presentations work in full-screen mode, I've added basic GtkGestureSwipe support to LibreOffice (for gtk3 >= 3.14) and hooked it up the slideshow, so now swiping towards the left advances to the next slide, to the right for the the previous slide.

Syndicated 2015-03-26 09:35:00 (Updated 2015-03-26 09:35:24) from Caolán McNamara

gtk3 vclplug, full-screen presentation canvas mode

Newly added simple support to the gtk3 vclplug for "canvas" support which is the thing we draw onto for presentations. Which means the gtk3 vclplug now supports full screen presentations. Which required a whole massive pile of reorganization of the existing canvas backends to move them from their own per-platform concept in canvas to the per-desktop concept in vcl.

So now rather than having only one cairo canvas backend based on the xlib apis which is for "Linux" we have a cairo canvas for each vcl plug. The old school xlib one is moved from inside its #ifdef LINUX in canvas to the shared base of the gtk2, kde, etc backends in vcl, and there is now a new one for gtk3

Presumably there are lots of performance gains to be made to the new canvas backend seeing as I'm just invalidating the whole slide window when the canvas declares that it's flush time but slides appear to appear instantaneously for me and fly ins and move around a patch effects are smooth even in -O0 debug mode so I'll hold back on any optimizations efforts for now.

Syndicated 2015-03-23 13:08:00 (Updated 2015-03-23 13:08:33) from Caolán McNamara

12 Mar 2015 (updated 18 Mar 2015 at 16:13 UTC) »

gtk3 vclplug,

I've been hacking the gtk3 vclplug for LibreOffice recently, here's the before image after scrolling up and down a few times. UI font not rendered the same as the rest of the desktop, bit droppings everywhere, text missing from style listbox, mouse-wheel non-functional

 Here's today's effort. Correct UI font, scrolling just works, mouse-wheel functional, no bit droppings.



After making it possible to render with cairo to our basebmp surface initially for the purposes of rendering text, I tweaked things so that instead of re-rendering everything in the affected area on a "draw" signal we do our initial render into the underlying basebmp surface on resize events and then trust that our internally triggered paints will keep that basebmp up to date and gtk_widget_queue_draw_area those areas as they are modified in basebmp and just blit that basebmp to the gtk3 cairo surface on the resulting gtk_widget_queue_draw_area- triggered "draw". This is pretty much what we do for the MacOSX backend.

The basebmp is now cairo-compatible so the actual LibreOffice->Gtk3 draw becomes a trivial direct paint to the requested area in the gtk surface from our basebmp surface

With our cairo-compatible basebmp surface the gtk3 native rendering stuff for drawing the buttons and menus etc can then render directly into that basebmp at the desired locations removing a pile of temporary surfaces, conversion code and bounds-checking hackery.

Further under the hood however the headless svp plug that the gtk3 inherits from had a pair of major ultra-frustrating bugs which meant that while it looked good in theory, in practice it still was epically failing wrt bit dropping in practice. Now solved are the two underlying clipping-related bugs. One where an optimization effort would trigger creating an overly clipped region, and another where attempts to copy from the surface were clipped out by the clip region.

Still got some glitches in the impress sidebar and of course the above theming engine is still missing a pile of stuff and slide-show/canvas mode needs implementing, but I'm heartened. Its not complete, but its now less traffic accident and more building site.

Syndicated 2015-03-12 16:54:00 (Updated 2015-03-18 15:41:37) from Caolán McNamara

gtk3 vclplug, text rendering via cairo

The LibreOffice gtk3 vclplug is currently basically rendering everything via the "svp" plugin code which renders to basebmp surfaces and then blits the result of all this onto the cairo surface belonging to the toplevel gtk3 widget

So the text is rendered with the svp freetype based text rendering and looks like this...






With some hacking I've unkinked a few places and allowed the basebmp backend to take the same stride and same same rgbx format as cairo, so we can now create a 24bit cairo surface from basebmp backing data which allows us to avoid conversions on basebmp->cairo and allows us to render onto a basebmp with cairo drawing routines, especially the text drawing ones. So with my in-gerrit-build-queue modifications it renders the same as the rest of the gtk3 desktop.

Syndicated 2015-03-02 15:16:00 (Updated 2015-03-02 15:16:43) from Caolán McNamara

LibreOffice Coverity Defect Density 0.00

So today's statistics for the latest coverity run over LibreOffic:

LibreOffice:  5,973,881 lines of code in Selected Components and 0.00 defect density

Defect density is measured by the number of defects per 1,000 lines of code, identified by the Coverity platform
11,751 Total defects, 21 Outstanding, 331 Dismissed, 11,399 Fixed
That's the dashboard reported figure. There are 21 unresolved warnings at the moment which works out at a true defect density of 0.003515303, we're in rounding to 0 territory. I reckon 11 of the remaining are really false positives but I'd still like to figure out how to "wiggle" the code to get their data validity check detected correctly.

Syndicated 2014-11-28 09:32:00 (Updated 2014-11-28 09:32:54) from Caolán McNamara

LibreOffice Coverity Defect Density 0.02

Coverity Defect Density: LibreOffice vs Average

We run LibreOffice through Coverity approximately once a week. According to Coverity's overview dashboard our current status is:

LibreOffice: 7,271,857 line of code and 0.02 defect density

Open Source Defect Density By Project Size

Line of Code (LOC) Defect Density
Less than 100,0000.35
100,000 to 499,9990.5
500,000 to 1 million0.7
More than 1 million0.65
Note: Defect density is measured by the number of defects per 1,000 lines of code, identified by the Coverity platform. The numbers shown above are from our 2013 Coverity Scan Report, which analyzed 250 million lines of open source code.

The "lines of code" here is 7,271,857 vs 9,500,825 in older reports because I'm now building against system-libraries instead of building those in-tree in order to speed up the process. Those "external" libraries have always been marked as "ignore in analysis" in coverity so that change has no effect on the defect density of our own code.

If anyone knows how we could rework our code or otherwise automatically silence https://communities.coverity.com/thread/2993 that would be great. This false positive keeps cropping up in uses of uno::Sequence so they keep popping up.

We're now at that happy place where we are getting a very small and manageable number of actually new warnings in "really" modified code each run rather than getting the same old one again and again as general refactoring perturbs the code enough that they get newly detected.

Syndicated 2014-11-07 21:08:00 (Updated 2014-11-07 21:08:05) from Caolán McNamara

Master Document Templates

Writer has long had Master Documents. A master document lets you manage large documents, such as a book with many chapters. One odt per chapter, bundled into a single document via a master odm

LibreOffice 4.4 introduces Master Document Templates. What that means is that these Master Document Templates can be added to the Template Manager and from there you can create a new Master Document (odm) based on a Master Document Template (otm). The new odm of course having the same initial content as the Template it is based upon.

Thanks to Máirín Duffy (of Red Hat, Inc.) for prompting this feature. Any failures in execution are mine however.

Syndicated 2014-09-16 13:05:00 (Updated 2014-09-16 13:05:44) from Caolán McNamara

More Font Support

Playing around with some Mac OS X fonts under Linux I noticed that LibreOffice wasn't listing a lot of them despite fontconfig announcing their existence. A little digging and some very small tweaks means that we now have mac ttf fontname encoding support along with support for version 2 ttc fonts. This is more fixing some oversights (version 2 of ttc came into existence after the ttc support was added so there was a "only if version is 1" condition) than implementing anything particularly new, but now LibreOffice under Linux works with a lot more ttf/ttc/otf fonts than it did before.

Syndicated 2014-09-13 13:27:00 (Updated 2014-09-13 13:27:30) from Caolán McNamara

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