Qt5 has several changes that break the API-compatibility to Qt4. Especially the transition to the Lighthouse/QPA architecture makes it necessary to adjust KWin accordingly.

QPixmap/XPixmap

Problem Description

In Qt 5 QPixmap can no longer reference an xcb_pixmap_t, which means that it cannot be used as a backend for XRender compositing. Dangerous API calls are:

QPixmap::fromX11Pixmap
QPixmap::x11PictureHandle
QPixmap::handle

How to solve

The solution depends on the usage. If QPixmap has been used to simplify drawing (e.g. QPainter) the drawing commands need to be ported to low level xcb render API. If QPixmap has been used to limit memory copies and to simplify sharing with QImage it becomes more difficult. Sharing to a QImage needs to be implemented and ported to it. Areas where QPixmap is used to get e.g. the drawing of a widget to be used later on in compositing, can only be partially adjusted. The code can be written, but should not be used as for Qt 4 we should use the native graphics system for QPixmap in XRender backend as long as possible.

Problematic code areas

Status	Code Area	Problem
TODO	Screenshot Effect	window rendered into QPixmap, read into an image
TODO	MouseClick Effect	drawing with QPainter on QPixmap
TODO	TrackMouse Effect	Image data loaded into QPixmap for rendering
TODO	PaintRedirector	QWidget drawing redirected into QPixmap
IN PROGRESS	Shadow	QPixmap for sharing data between windows
TODO	SceneXrender	QPixmap used as pixmap wrapper
TODO	EffectFrame	Usage of FrameSvg, provides QPixmap
TODO	Client::icon	Icon is a QPixmap, needs to have QIcon and low level xcb_pixmap_t

QCursor

Problem Description

In Qt 5 QCursor does no longer expose the native handle, which means we cannot use it to manually setting the cursor with low level xcb calls.

How to solve

KWin needs it's own Cursor implementation (needed anyway for Wayland) which does both the low level interaction and providing an easy to use high level abstraction for internal usage.

Problematic code areas

Status	Code Area	Problem
TODO	Client::updateCursor	Used in XDefineCursor
TODO	EffectsHandlerImpl::createInputWindow	QCursor passed in to set the cursor image for the window
TODO	Cube Effect	QCursor used to update cursor on input window
TODO	DesktopGrid Effect	QCursor used to update cursor on input window
TODO	PresentWindows Effect	QCursor used to update cursor on input window
TODO	Client::startMoveResize	QCursor used to set the cursor while moving/resizing a window
TODO	Client::embedClient	Defined on window

QRegion

Problem Description

In Qt 5 QRegion no longer references a _XRegion which is used in conjunction with XShape.

How to solve

Code needs to be ported to XCB anyway which will replace the region by the rects.

Problematic code areas

Status	Code Area	Problem
TODO	Client::updateInputWindow()	XShapeCombineRegion
TODO	Client::setMask	XShapeCombineRegion
TODO	kcmdecoration KDecorationPreview::setPreviewMask	maybe no longer needed?
TODO	DecoBenchmark	seems like copy of kcm, maybe no longer needed?