view: try to reduce confusion in focused_view tracking

Our current approach to handling the focused/active view is a bit
confusing. In particular, it's hard to be sure when server->focused_view
is or isn't in sync with the real wlroots keyboard focus.

Try to clean things up a bit. In particular:

- Add comments to server->focused_view and desktop_focused_view() to
  clarify that they should match, but it's not guaranteed.

- desktop_focused_view() now prints a warning if it detects that
  server->focused_view is out of sync. We should keep an eye out for
  this warning, and if we see it, try to figure out why it happened.

- For consistency, use only "focus/defocus" as the verbs in function
  names rather than "activate". This is a bit arbitrary, but the idea is
  that focus is the primary action while the active/inactive state is a
  side effect.

- view_focus/defocus() replace view_set_activated() and now update both
  focus and active/inactive state, to try to keep them in sync.

- Add comments at view_focus/defocus() to warn against calling them
  directly (we should generally call the desktop.c functions).

- desktop_focus_view(NULL) is now forbidden and is no longer handled as
  a special case to clear the focus. This was (at least to me) a
  surprising behavior and caused trouble when working on another change.

- To maintain existing behavior, desktop_focus_topmost_mapped_view() now
  explicitly clears the focus if there are no mapped views.

There should be no behavioral change here.
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John Lindgren 2023-09-26 01:35:36 -04:00 committed by Johan Malm
parent 003d1fd494
commit 3022985ba7
11 changed files with 100 additions and 60 deletions

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@ -257,7 +257,8 @@ bool view_isfocusable(struct view *view);
bool view_inhibits_keybinds(struct view *view);
void view_toggle_keybinds(struct view *view);
void view_set_activated(struct view *view);
void view_focus(struct view *view);
void view_defocus(struct view *view);
void view_set_output(struct view *view, struct output *output);
void view_close(struct view *view);