The original idea was to decouple the notification and the screens, but
this causes the default `rc.lua` to behave in very unexpected ways.
This commit re-implement the `legacy` logic for the `box` layout.
Just like clients and other CAPI classes, it is now possible to
connect to all instance signals. There was already a couple of
`request::geometry`, but no way to forward them, so it was
de-facto broken.
The next commit will all class level signals. The current design
is used in widgets, but is a bad fit for wiboxes. They should
behave more like client. In v5, setting methods on `wibox` directly
will be deprecated. `wibox.object` is already supported. I don't
think anyone really do that anyway and isn't documented.
It's the same module, but with a new name. The commit also switches
from the "one off" rule write to the incremental and signal based one.
This allows modules to add their own rules without having a race
condition against `rc.lua` and other modules. Previously, if a module
wasn't designed to prevent it, rules got destroyed each time.
This will break some existing links, but oh well, it isn't the first
time and some websites cannot render URLs with spaces in them. This
means external references to some of the input doc are currently
impossible.
This commit mostly rewrite the client documentation and pay the
technical debt accumulated over the years. Most of the client
documentation was still one-liners from the luadoc era. It now
has all the new tags, type. It also has actual description of
what the properties do beyond the name.
From now on, all core object will have their own rules. `awful.rules`
hardcodes some client specific code. All `rules` module have some form
of class specific code. This code will now be part of a new module
called `ruled`. Since a year or so, a lot of work has been done to
refactor the rules on top of the shared `gears.matcher` class. This way
there wont be as much duplication.
This has to be in its own commit otherwise Travis will fail. This
is because it will keep the file in the build directory when
iterating all commits. Then `ldoc` will fail because the file doesn't
have documentation. If `config.ld` is updated first, then it will
fail because `ruled/init.lua` doesn't exist yet. When it is done
in a separate commit, then `config.ld` is already updated and comes
with `init.lua`.
Another pull request at some point will add proper API levels,
it will then become possible to fix these without breaking
the API for everybody. However right now there is no way around
the problems.
Emmanuel Lepage Vallee
mergify[bot]
Aire-One
Uli Schlachter
Yauhen Kirylau
laith-m0
Seth Barberee
feltcat