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diff --git a/panels/display/TODO b/panels/display/TODO new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f09425c --- /dev/null +++ b/panels/display/TODO @@ -0,0 +1,837 @@ +Highlevel overview: + +Tablet rotation things +only when there is a tablet attached. + +Here is the OS X Display menu: + + Detect Displays + Turn on mirroring + -------------------------- + SyncMaster + - 1280 x 1024, 60 Hz, Millions + - 1344 x ... + -------------------------------- + Color LCD + - 1024 x 1024 ... + -------------------------- + Displays Preferences + + Color LCD means "laptop panel". + +- GTK+ work. + + Allow applications to be notified whenever monitors are added + or removed. Allow applications to get more detailed + information about the connected monitors. + + The main complication is that XRRGetScreenResources() is very + slow. We could call it only when the X server sends an event, + but it's not desirable to have every application freeze for + half a second. And certainly not desirable to have the X + server block for n * 0.5 seconds. + + With the X server work below we should be fine just calling + XRRGetScreenResources on startup and in response to events. + +- X server work: + + X server needs to poll for whether a monitor is plugged + in. Whenever it detects a change, it should do an EDID query, + and cache the resulting information. That way XRRGetScreenResources() + can be the speed of a normal roundtrip. It's desirable that + normal client requests can still be processed during the EDID + querying, but only a nice-to-have. + + Drivers need to work reliably. There could be substantial work + here. For F9, possibly only the Intel driver can be made to + work. + + Interrupts and events must be generated whenever something changes + about the outputs, if necessary by polling. + + Events must be emitted whenever something changes, including when + the reason for the change is a manual change. + + The maximum framebuffer must be dynamically changable. + +- Control panel work: + Capplet needs to be written. The main complications: + + - It needs to pay attention to events from the X server + and update itself, ie., add show new monitors if they become + available when the applet is shown. + + - It needs to store information under a key computed + from a monitor identifier. The complication here is that + it's not completely clear how to do this in GConf. + + - Would probably be worthwhile to drop libgnome/libgnomeui from + the craplets. + +- Metacity work: + - Metacity is already Xinerama aware, but it needs to update itself + when monitors come and go. + +- GNOME panel work: + - Is already Xinerama aware, but needs to listen and update itself + when monitors change. + +- Evince work: + - Make sure it deals sensibly with multiple monitors + +- OpenOffice work: + - Make sure it deals sensibly with multiple monitors + +- An Xlib call to just return all the available information would be + useful. At the moment we have to do a bunch of roundtrips to + get the information. This is a would-be-nice though. + +- A dbus service could be written that pops up the applet whenever a + monitor. It should only pop up if the new monitor is unknown. This + is at best a nice-to-have, and low priority in my opinion. + + +******************* Metacity + +Havoc: + +> I was just talking to bryan about this and "helping" him design it ;-) + +> But I wanted to be sure and lobby for a fix window managers +> need. Basically right now the WM can't tell "physical" from +> "logical" monitors. + +> A "logical" monitor is a desktop; it has its own panel, windows +> maximize to it, etc. + +> A "physical" monitor is a piece of hardware. + +> Sometimes people want to combine physical monitors into a video wall +> or just two monitors treated as one. Or at least a couple of noisy +> people in bugzilla want to do this. + +> When people talk about a "Xinerama aware" app or WM they usually +> mean that all physical monitors are treated as logical monitors, +> while lack of Xinerama-aware means treating the entire X screen (all +> physical monitors) as one logical monitor. + +> The problem is that the setting for "ignore Xinerama" or "don't be +> Xinerama aware" should be global to the desktop (GTK, all apps, WM) +> and should not be a window manager setting. + +> Bryan thought people who wanted non-Xinerama-aware should just use +> fvwm, which may be right, but what I'd say is that if there is any +> setting for this, it should be desktop-global and in this monitor +> config dialog. + +> It should not be a metacity or Compiz option, but in some way an X +> option in short. The implementation could be either an X server +> feature or an EWMH hint or whatever, but it should be controlled by +> the monitor config dialog and used by apps, GTK, etc. in addition to +> used by the WM. + +> People tend to insist this should be a WM option, but that's just +> busted, since GTK and apps also have Xinerama-awareness features. + + +******************* EDID + +edid-decode enhancements: + +- Rejects years <= 0x0f for all versions, but this should only be done + for monitors claiming conformance to 1.4 (since 1.4 was released in + 2006). A monitor produced in 2005 should have 0x0f - it's the only + reasonable thing to do. + +- Uses 0x80 as the conformance mask for 1.4, should be 0 + +- Should read from stdin + +- Should parse xrandr -verbose output more robustly + +- Color depth computation is wrong. It uses the formula + + (edid[0x14] >> 3) + 2 + + The correct formula to use is + + (edid[0x14] & 0x70) >> 3 + 4 + +- + +-=-=-=- +Computing a display name from EDID information: + + vendor = lookup_vendor (code); + + if (dsc_product && !is_gobbledigook (dsc_product)) + { + if (vendor && !fuzzy_string_search (vendor, dsc_product)) + prepend (vendor); + } + else + { + if (vendor) + append (vendor); + else + append ("Unknown"); + } + + if (has size) + { + convert_to_inches() + + append (" %d\"", inches) + } + +(Does this internationalize at all)? + +We also need the ability to get laptop names. The laptop panel may report +a manufacturer that has nothing to do with the laptop manufacturer. + +Needed XRandr output properties: + +- Modes that the monitor supports, or enough information that the + client can go throught the list of modes for the relevant + CRTC/Outputs and filter those out that the monitor can't support. + +- The preferred mode, if any. Also useful if we could get a "strongly + preferred" indication if it's an LCD with a fixed resolution. + +- Sufficient information that a fairly specific identifier can be + computed. The algorithm the client should use is: + + 1 Have we seen exactly this monitor before? If yes, use + settings for that. + + 2 Have we seen a monitor with similar specs before? If yes, + use settings for that. (But don't save, unless the user + changes the settings). + + 3 Otherwise, use some reasonable default for the monitor and + save it. + + A setting should only be used if the CRTC/Output allows it. Ie,. if + a user has installed a new video card, then previously-used settings + may no longer apply, so this must be checked every time. + + (1) Implies that we really need a globally unique identifier for + monitors. (2) is useful in an enterprise setting, but not absolutely + critical, since (3) would still handle the majority of cases. + + There is a question here: Where are machine specific preferences + stored? Havoc mentions three possibilities here: + + http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomecc-list/2001-October/msg00023.html + + I'm not sure if any of them are implementable at this point. Also + (1) may mostly take care of the problem. + + + Usecases: + + 1. Fixed setup with some number of monitors. + - They should be set to the correct mode on login. + Note that this involves setting the right position in the + framebuffer too. + + What if someone swaps two monitors? Users are going to expect + that the images will switch position. + + 2. Laptop being moved between home and work + - Setups should be detected and the correct mode set, at least on + login, but ideally when you put the laptop into the docking + station. + + 3. Laptop gets projector plugged in. + + Note the same model monitor can be used in two different ways. Ie., + at home, it's being used at one resolution, at work the same type of + monitor is used at a different resolution. + + Simple solution: + + - The on-disk database is just a list of monitors. Each monitor has an + associated mode. This has these problems: + - If someone uses the same monitor model in two different ways. + - If someone swaps the monitors around + + Better solution + + - The on-disk database is a list of configurations, where a + configuration is a list of monitors and what outputs they are + connected to, and the position in the framebuffer. + + - Picking a default configuration is then a matter of selecting the + closest existing configuration from the database. + + - If the stored configuration is a subset of the existing, + then use that - then pick the best mode available for the + rest of the monitors + + - If the stored configuration is a superset of the existing, + then use the projection of the configuration onto the monitors. + + - Pick the configuration with the most overlap in monitors. + Although, if a configuration differs only in what outputs + they are connected to, then those outputs should probably + get their original modes set. + + - Or maybe simply: + + - If there is an exact match, use it, if not, pick a default. + + - Picking a new default must never change the mode of any existing + output. + +******************* Capplet + +Somehow the applet will find out that a new monitor is plugged in +(either through notification, or through a refresh button). When this +happens, this monitor is looked up in a database and if it is found, +some suitable mode is set. + +Restrictions on the modes: + +- Monitors that are already plugged in should not get their mode + changed just because a new monitor is plugged in. + +- If the exact configuration of monitors is known, and all the old + monitors have the same mode as the known configuration, then just use + the known configuration. Also do this, if the configuration is a + subset of something known. + +- Otherwise, if the configuration is a subset of a known configuration + where the only difference is that existing monitors have different + modes, then try and convert that mode to something we can know + about. Maybe configurations should be stored in terms of edges that + line up. + +- Otherwise, just pick some good default for the mode, probably based + on the EDID prferred mode if possible. By default cloning is + probably best. + +- How do virtual desktops interact with this? + + +g-s-d: + +- On startup + + - It reads the configuration file into memory + + capplet --configure + + - It gathers the existing configuration from randr + + - If the existing config is in the file, set that mode + +- On changes, including changes to the config file [this is crack] + + - Reread configuration file + + - Compare new configuration to database, if it is there, set the + mode as appropriate + + - If a monitor was added, pop up a bubble + + capplet --show-bubble + + capplet --set-mode + +capplet + +- On changes + + - Update GUI + +- When user changes something, + + - Write configuration to file + + - Signal gsd somehow + +Schemes: + - configuration file changes + - randr code will have to be shared between gcc and gsd + + - binary installed by gcc + - something will still have to listen for changes to pop + up the notification bubble. + +Structure of capplet: + +- There is a database on disk with monitors and their corresponding + settings. + +- On startup, this database is read into memory. When the user accepts + new settings, it is written back to disk. + +- When something changes about the settings + + - If new configuration is in the database, use that mode + + - Else, find all outputs that are now connected but weren't before, + and set a default mode for them. + + - If GUI is running, update graphics. + + + - Notification thing: + - if + + - if the new configuration is found in the database, use it + + and added if they are not already there. Initial settings are + 1 what the output is already doing, if anything + 2 based on an existing sufficiently similar monitor, if possible + 3 some reasonable default. + +- When the user changes settings in the GUI, the corresponding monitor + in the database is updated. + +- Whenever the GUI settings change, for all displayed monitors the + possible modes are recomputed. + +- Whenever a new monitor is selected in the GUI, it first gets all its + possible modes computed based on the selections on other + outputs. Then, if the possible modes include the existing choice of + resolution, that is selected. + + Actually, + + - initially, the settings are copied from the current settings + + - whenever a gui setting changes for a monitor, all the other + monitors get their list of choices set to whatever is possible + given the chocie for the current monitor. A 'desired mode' is + maintained, and the closest choice to that is displayed. Whenever + the user actively selects something, that becomes the desired mode + for that monitor. + +- Required + + - Generate all outputs that are newly connected + + foreach_newly_connected (Configuration *before, Configuration *after, + OutputFunc); + + - A way to generate the best mode for a connected output + + existing best_mode() can probably be used + + - Given a list of modes, pick the one closest to a given mode. + + (a possibility here is: pick an exact match, if that's + impossible, then pick the best one with the same + width/height, if that's impossible, then just pick the + best mode on the list). + + - For a configuation, fix the mode for a subset of the outputs, then + list the combinations for the rest of the outputs. + + An obvious possibility here is to simply list all possibilities, + then weed out those that don't work. Is this too expensive? + It might be. + +Structure of login time program: + +- The configuration database is read + +- The current hardware configuration is generated + +- If the current configuration is found in the database, that mode is set. + +- If it isn't found, then nothing changes. + + This could just be gnome-screen-resolution-capplet --reset + +******************* Things that need to be done to the xrandr.patch: + +=== + +XRRGetScreenResources() is a roundtrip and very slow (~0.5 s). GTK+ +needs to keep information up-to-date by tracking events rather than +calling this function. In fact we probably can't call it at all unless +its performance improves significantly. + +If EDID processing really has to be this slow, and we can't get +interrupts when monitors are plugged in, then we have a problem, +because we can't do anything this expensive once per second. + + +Detailed notes (but most of the patch should be rewritten): + + +=== FIXME in gdkscreen-x11.c in get_width_mm() + +/* monitor pixel width / screen pixel width * screen_physical width */ + + + +=== Check for 1.2 library + +The patch should check that the 1.2 version of the XRandR library is +available before using the functions. A possibility is to not use any +RandR unless 1.2 is available, another is to conditionalize the code. + +The most sane thing is probably to just require 1.2. + +On the other hand, installing a newer gtk+ on a system with older X is +probably not that unusual, so maybe it's better to do the full 1.0, +vs. 1.1 vs 1.2 check. + +For now it just requires 1.2. + +Actually, this might be fine because the only place where we make use +of a 1.1 library is in the _gdk_x11_screen_size_changed() function, +but there we have a fallback that just updates the variables in the +Screen struct itself. + +So, only defining HAVE_RANDR if we detect 1.2 should be ok. + +=== Monitor information available + +- Subpixel information. This should be set automatically for the fonts and + store under the name of the monitor. If the user changes the font + configuration, that change should also be stored under the monitor name. + +- When a monitor we don't know about is plugged in, a configuration should + be generated: + + - Screen size, computed based on the location of the screens + + - RGBA information + + - Whether the screen has a panel on it + + - If there is a conflict between stored information and EDID, + the stored information wins + + + +New API so far: + +(* monitors_changed) signal +gdk_screen_get_monitor_width_mm() +gdk_screen_get_monitor_height_mm() +gdk_screen_get_monitor_name() => Note this is the output (eg. "DVI-0") + +We should probably also have +get_manufacturer() +get_serial() +get_resolutions() + +etc. + +Should there be a GdkMonitor object that would correspond to an +output? Or maybe GdkOutput? + +screen_list_monitors() + + +*************************** Issues XRandR/Xserver + +- We need polling in the X server, whenever something changes, X must + recompute the information and cache it, then send an event. Note the + situation where the user disconnects and reconnects a monitor within + the polling interval. The event could missed in that case since the polling + cannot do a full EDID query. Difficult to see a way around this. + + Actually, DDC allows random access, so it should be possible to just + read theq vendor id and manufacturer codes. This can be done once a + second without a problem. The polling should be turned off in power + saving mode anyway. + + - Driver work: + + - Intel driver: + + - EDID information is not reported for VGA when the output is not + turned on (i945 laptop). + + - Screen size must be dynamically changable. (No xorg.conf changes + should be required). + + - Make use of ACPI information when possible. + + Adam has code on his freedesktop page. + + - i830 laptop can be put in a state where XRandr reports that no + outputs are connected to a CRTC, but the panel is on. + + - Plug in VGA + - xrandr --auto + - xrandr --output VGA --off + - run chk + - xrandr --verbose will now not report any outputs as turned on + - run chk again - all screens will be turned off + + - Small Sun monitor - an 1152x921 mode is generated, but the + monitor doesn't handle that. The monitor itself only claims to + handle 1152x920. It doesn't look to me like there is anything + in the EDID information that would indicate that it could handle + 1152x921. + + This happens with a radeon as wellso it may be a bug in the + generic X server EDID parsing. The X server apparently + interpretes the standard timing 1152x920 as 1152x921. + + This happens because the X server uses + + hsize * 4 / 5 + + which gives 921 for 1152. By using + + (hsize / 5) * 4 + + you get 920. The 66 Hz version can bet set, the 76 Hz mode gets + sync out of range. (Would be interesting to find out whether the + 1152x920 ModeLine would allow the 76 Hz version to be set). + + This is for the ATI driver as shipped in F8: + + - XRRGetScreenResources() takes half a second. + + - Adam has now removed a workaround that caused some of the slowdown. + + - If a DVI monitor is disconnected, you get "Unknown" for connection + status. + + - If a VGA monitor is plugged in, then EDID information is not + available, even after running xrandr --verbose. The monitor has + to be plugged in at driver startup time, apparently. + + - Logging out and logging back in often results in some random mode being + set. We need mode selection to not be completely screwed up. + Currently it is. + + - The set up at server startup needs to be fixed. *If* randr actually works, + then we might be able to do something sensible. + + - We need to revisit the idea that many monitors have broken EDID data. + This may be less widespread than previously believed. + +- It may be useful to return the connector names as identifiers instead + of relying on UTF-8 strings. Ie., have an enum + + { UNKNOWN, OTHER, DVI, VGA, HDMI, ..., } + + in addition to the string. The difference between UNKNOWN and OTHER is that + UNKNOWN means the driver doesn't know, whereas OTHER means it is something + not listed in the enum (which could be listed in a later version). + +- Mouse cursor should be confined to the visible area. (It is already, I think) + +- It looks like EDID information is only available for one output + even though it is actually read according to the log file. + (nv, intel drivers) + + +********************************* + + + +DONE: + +Server work: + + - i830 laptop incorrectly reports BadMatch when you configure the + CRTC to drive both VGA and LVDS with the 1024x768 mode that both + outputs can handle. (It should return 'failed' if it can't do + that). Same for i945 laptop. It seems as if the same CRTC can't + drive more than one output at the same time on Intel. + + This was a client bug, but the documentation for SetCrtcConfig + should say that BadMatch will be returned if the outputs aren't + clones. + +GTK+ patch is in now. + +=== Add helper function + + ++ if (screen_x11->randr12) ++ { ++ XRRScreenResources *sr; ++ XRROutputInfo *output; ++ gchar *retval; ++ ++ sr = XRRGetScreenResources ( screen_x11->xdisplay, ++ screen_x11->xroot_window ); ++ ++ output = XRRGetOutputInfo ( screen_x11->xdisplay, ++ sr, ++ (RROutput)screen_x11->act_outputs[monitor_num] +); + + Might be worthwhile to factor this out into a + gdk_screen_get_output_info (screen, monitor_num) + helper function ? + +Instead of cutting and pasting all over creation + +* Calling XRRGetScreenResources all the time is not going to fly. It + takes hundreds of milliseconds ... Even if it didn't, it wouldn't + be acceptable to do all those roundtrips. + + +=== Some g_prints left + + +=== Version check + +Should be (maj > 1) || (maj == 1 && min >= 2) + + +=== Grep for TODO + + +=== Setup XRRSelectInput() + + You should call XRRSelectInput() at the same place where you are + calling XSelectInput() right now. The right place to handle the + XRandr events is the huge switch in gdkevents-x11.c:gdk_event_translate + Check out how other extension events are handled there, like + XKB, or XFixes. + + +=== Lots of variable naming issues, such as act_output and noutput + +=== Needs to select the input, and hook it up to the signal + +=== Add version markers to API + +=== API to turn monitors on and off? + +- DPMS not exposed through randr, maybe should be + + - DPMS is presumably a property of either an + output or a CRTC. Logically it's an output. + +- Need events when DPMS happens. Exposing the "screen saving on" on + dbus may not be good enough. + +=== Why does init_multihead_support() start by freeing monitors and +outputs? + +=== Do we disable Xinerama support entirely when 1.2 is in use? + +=== We should expose information about what parts of the screen monitors +are viewing. + +=== Make use of the EDID information? + + +-- details for X server -- + +In nv driver SorSetOutputProperty should return TRUE for unknown +properties. (Like the Intel driver does). + +Detecting plugged in + +- Periodically poll + - + + - One ddc probe takes 5 ms, according to a comment in the intel + driver. Running this twice a second would mean spending 1% of + overall time doing ddc polling, which is almost certainly not + acceptable. + + 1) Async I2C: + + void I2CProbeAsync(..., callback, data); + Bool I2CPending() + void I2CUpdate() + + In Dispatch, call I2CUpdate() + Before going idle, do + + while (I2CPending()) + I2CUpdate() + + Would need + RegisterDispatchFunction() (Is this called Wakeup?) + RegisterIdleFunction() + + Note the idle function should have the option of saying: + "check if something else happened; if not, call me again" and + "ok, I'm done - go idle". Otherwise, we would be blocking for + 5 ms whenever the X server went idle. So actually the idle + function should be + + if (I2CPending()) + { + I2CUpdate(); + return TRUE; /* call me again */ + } + else + { + return FALSE; /* I'm done */ + } + + What happens if another I2C requests come in while an async one + is pending? Most likely we simply finish whatever is going on, + then process the new request. + + What happens if an X request takes so long that we get timeouts on + the i2c bus? Good question. Need to read the VESA ddc spec. + + 2) Run the polling in a separate thread. + + Probably crack. + + 3) Run the polling less, maybe once every three seconds. + +-- details for control panel -- +Screen changes + - Currently it is polling via rw_screen_refresh(), which will always emit + a screen-changed event. In reponse to this event the capplet currently + checks whether anything changed physically about the setup. This means + the capplet can't react to external changes to modes. On the other hand + if it didn't +Disallow combinations that would exceed the screen ranges. + - Note rotations + +Give rw objects stable positions in memory so that they can be cached +across screen_changed events. + +Add Clone Mode + +Drag and drop for the monitors + - 2 dimensional layout + +Store make and model in monitors.xml, then if serial numbers don't +match, fall back to a make and model match. Users with an nfs mounted +home directory should not have to reconfigure for each new system they +log in to. + +Make sure text is scaled correctly + +Need to sanitize naming + RWOutput vs Output - should probably be OutputInfo + rate vs. freq - decide on one + +Should probably reconsider the use of null terminated arrays. +Maybe lists would be better. + +Pick a fixed scale, so that two 1024x768 don't look like two 6x4. + - An alternative would be to draw a checkerboard pattern + below the monitors. + + + +done: + +Add rotation + +Disable panel checkbox for now + +Patch into gnome-desktop + +Find out how to share code between gcc and gsd + +Make it assign coordinates correctly + - including computing correct screen size + |