This deletes the GLFW apprt from the Ghostty codebase.
The GLFW apprt was the original apprt used by Ghostty (well, before
Ghostty even had the concept of an "apprt" -- it was all just a single
application then). It let me iterate on the core terminal features,
rendering, etc. without bothering about the UI. It was a good way to get
started. But it has long since outlived its usefulness.
We've had a stable GTK apprt for Linux (and Windows via WSL) and a
native macOS app via libghostty for awhile now. The GLFW apprt only
remained within the tree for a few reasons:
1. Primarily, it provided a faster feedback loop on macOS because
building the macOS app historically required us to hop out of the
zig build system and into Xcode, which is slow and cumbersome.
2. It was a convenient way to narrow whether a bug was in the
core Ghostty codebase or in the apprt itself. If a bug was in both
the glfw and macOS app then it was likely in the core.
3. It provided us a way on macOS to test OpenGL.
All of these reasons are no longer valid. Respectively:
1. Our Zig build scripts now execute the `xcodebuild` CLI directly and
can open the resulting app, stream logs, etc. This is the same
experience we have on Linux. (Xcode has always been a dependency of
building on macOS in general, so this is not cumbersome.)
2. We have a healthy group of maintainers, many of which have access
to both macOS and Linux, so we can quickly narrow down bugs
regardless of the apprt.
3. Our OpenGL renderer hasn't been compatible with macOS for some time
now, so this is no longer a useful feature.
At this point, the GLFW apprt is just a burden. It adds complexity
across the board, and some people try to run Ghostty with it in the real
world and get confused when it doesn't work (it's always been lacking in
features and buggy compared to the other apprts).
So, it's time to say goodbye. Its bittersweet because it is a big part
of Ghostty's history, but we've grown up now and it's time to move on.
Thank you, goodbye.
(NOTE: If you are a user of the GLFW apprt, then please fork the project
prior to this commit or start a new project based on it. We've warned
against using it for a very, very long time now.)
By using integers for the fragcoords I may have stepped on an edge case
which causes cell background positions to be shifted by 1 px under some
circumstances. I couldn't reproduce that issue in a VM, so I'm making
this commit for the user who was having the problem to test it.
This update also fixes a memory leak that was caused by blocks not being
deallocated and just collecting every single frame, slowly accumulating
memory until OOM.
This was creating problems with the branch drawing glyphs at some sizes.
In the future the whole "foreground modes" thing needs to be reworked,
so this is just a stopgap until that gets turned in to something nicer.
We were using the Rectangle target for simpler addressing, since that
allows for pixel coordinates instead of normalized coordinates, but
there are downsides to rectangle textures, including not supporting
compressed texture formats, and we do probably want to use compressed
formats in the future, so I'm making this change now.
This was applied to the wrong thing by accident, making the custom
shader ping-pong textures compressed, which breaks custom shaders
because compressed texture formats are not color renderable.
Additionally, I've not switched the compressed format to the correct
texture options, because I tried that and it turns out that the default
compression applied by drivers can't be trusted to be good quality and
generally speaking looks terrible. In the future we can explore doing
the compression ourselves CPU-side with something like b7enc_rdo.
BPTC is required to be available OpenGL >= 4.2 and our minimum is 4.3 so
this is safe in terms of support. I tested briefly in a VM and didn't
encounter any problems so this should just be a complete win.
(Note: texture data is already automatically compressed on Metal)
Adds support for background images via the `background-image` config.
Resolves#3645, supersedes PRs #4226 and #5233.
See docs of added config keys for usage details.
Also changes color atlas to always use an sRGB internal format so that
the texture reads automatically linearize the colors.
Renames the misleading `rgba` atlas format to `bgra`, since both
FreeType and CoreText are set up to draw color glyphs in bgra.
In this format it will be a lot easier to iterate on this since adding
and removing pipelines only has to be done in a single place.
This commit also separates out the main background color from individual
cell background color drawing, because sometimes kitty images need to be
between the main background and individual cell backgrounds (kitty image
z-index seems to be entirely broken at the moment, I intend to fix it in
future commits).
The code in metal/image.zig and opengl/image.zig was virtually identical
save for the texture options, so I've moved that to the GraphicsAPI and
unified them in to renderer/image.zig
These should not be independent per-frame, that makes the time
calculations all sorts of jank.
Also moves the uniforms struct layout in to `shadertoy.zig` and cleans
up the handling in general somewhat.
We need this to get info about the padding, even if we do derive the
grid and screen size separately.
In the future this should possibly be changed to a message that only
sends the padding info and nothing else.
If this was Swift code, we'd be using a strong reference, which would
retain the layer for us and release it when the object is deallocated,
but this is Zig land so we have to do that manually.
NOTE: We don't *have* to do this, but it fits much better with Zig idiom
and hopefully avoids potential future footguns. We should do this to any
autoreleased objects that we persist a reference to in a Zig struct.
This commit is very large, representing about a month of work with many
interdependent changes that don't separate cleanly in to atomic commits.
The main change here is unifying the renderer logic to a single generic
renderer, implemented on top of an abstraction layer over OpenGL/Metal.
I'll write a more complete summary of the changes in the description of
the PR.
This commit changes a LOT of areas of the code to use decl literals
instead of redundantly referring to the type.
These changes were mostly driven by some regex searches and then manual
adjustment on a case-by-case basis.
I almost certainly missed quite a few places where decl literals could
be used, but this is a good first step in converting things, and other
instances can be addressed when they're discovered.
I tested GLFW+Metal and building the framework on macOS and tested a GTK
build on Linux, so I'm 99% sure I didn't introduce any syntax errors or
other problems with this. (fingers crossed)
