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diff --git a/notes/plan.md b/notes/plan.md index b0ea7cd..6e1d824 100644 --- a/notes/plan.md +++ b/notes/plan.md @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ solves), and the trigger that would reopen it. | **VT switching (Ctrl+Alt+Fn) is kernel-hardwired** before the key_filter (`wlr_session_change_vt`) | It is the session escape hatch — must work even if an extension throws or greedily consumes keys; not a rebindable feature (user decision) | — | | **Stage dock** (ext-stage-dock, standard) = the Stage-Manager-style left-edge dock of minimized-window **previews**, revealed by a left-edge **swipe**. **Fork B**: previews are toplevel snapshots imported as textures INTO the ui substrate's RMLUi context and shown as `<img>` in ONE RML document | Closest to the iPad Stage Manager north star; one ui surface animates as a unit via RCSS; reuses the slice-3 dmabuf/EGLImage bridge in reverse (wlr pixels → RMLUi texture) instead of two-layer scene/RML lockstep | Cross-context texture import proves infeasible on crocus → fall back to Fork A (previews as `wlr_scene` snapshot nodes) | | **Mechanism in kernel/core, policy in ext-stage-dock.** Kernel ui substrate gains: preview-snapshot, list/container bindings, a gesture-CLAIM input path. ext-xdg-shell gains: `Toplevel::hide()/show()` (≠ unmap), `geometry()`, `scene_tree()`. ext-stage-dock owns: the "minimized" set, dock layout, gesture recognition, easing | Keeps "kernel names no feature" — snapshot/claim/list-bindings are generic primitives; minimize-to-dock is the only policy and lives in one standard extension | — | -| **RML compositing (DIRECTION, gated by a spike — reopens the compositing half of row 51).** RMLUi becomes the CONTENT compositor: toplevels, layer-shell clients (incl. wallpaper), and UI chrome are all RMLUi elements backed by LIVE, SHARED GL textures (zero per-frame copy via the existing shared EGLDisplay). Layout/animation/3D effects are RCSS. wlroots stays the foundation + plane manager (backend/output/renderer/seat, hardware cursor plane, fullscreen-video scanout bypass). Lost wlr_scene damage/scanout is mitigated by OUR dirty-gated rendering (idle ≈ no work) + a deferred fullscreen scanout bypass. Full design + spike acceptance criteria: `notes/rml-compositing.md` | The appeal is Hyprland-grade window effects via DECLARATIVE RCSS (layout, transitions, 3D transforms, blur/shaders) with hot-reload — and RmlUi already does transform-aware hit-testing + RTT/filters, while slice 3 + the stage dock already proved dmabuf/EGLImage texture handoff on this exact crocus HW. Doing windows in RMLUi means tiling/effects/stage-manager are all RCSS policy on top | The spike fails on the CF-AX3 (no zero-copy shared-texture path, input-routing dead-end, surface-tree composition impractical, or idle/perf out of budget) → fall back to wlr_scene compositing + transient snapshot-through-RMLUi effects | +| **RML compositing (ADOPTED — Phase 0 spike PASSED GO on real Haswell+crocus; supersedes the compositing half of row 51).** RMLUi is the CONTENT compositor: toplevels, layer-shell clients (incl. wallpaper), and UI chrome are all RMLUi elements backed by LIVE, SHARED GL textures (zero per-frame copy via the existing shared EGLDisplay). Layout/animation/3D effects are RCSS. wlroots stays the foundation + plane manager (backend/output/renderer/seat, hardware cursor plane, fullscreen-video scanout bypass). Lost wlr_scene damage/scanout is mitigated by OUR dirty-gated rendering (idle ≈ no work) + damage-limited compositing + a deferred fullscreen scanout bypass. **Contract decision (user): RCSS is the single source of truth for ALL layout + animation; C++/extensions DRIVE the document through a TYPED substrate API but never own placement geometry directly — the typed-symbol rule governs cross-extension dependency discovery, not the RCSS styling vocabulary.** Spike report: `reports/rml-compositing-spike.md`; Phase-1 design: `notes/rml-compositing-phase1.md` | The appeal is Hyprland-grade window effects via DECLARATIVE RCSS (layout, transitions, 3D transforms, blur/shaders) with hot-reload — and RmlUi already does transform-aware hit-testing + RTT/filters, while slice 3 + the stage dock already proved dmabuf/EGLImage texture handoff on this exact crocus HW. Doing windows in RMLUi means tiling/effects/stage-manager are all RCSS policy on top. **Phase 0 proved on the real CF-AX3 GPU class: zero-copy live import, RCSS 3D transform on live pixels, input accurate through the transform, per-subsurface surface trees, idle dirty-gate, FBO→dmabuf present; ~30fps under a 4-window load, fill-bound (~10–15ms whole-output composite) with damage limiting as the known recovery** | A Phase-2 implementation blocker on the real seat (perf regresses below budget after damage limiting + scanout bypass, or the RCSS-only contract proves unworkable for a real tiling/effects extension) → fall back to wlr_scene compositing + transient snapshot-through-RMLUi effects | ## 3. Architecture |