To recompile all the shaders is expensive. And something to be avoided at all costs.
It was needed before because for every new lamp in the file we needed to
recompile the shaders. Now this is no longer required since we are using
UBOs for the sahders.
Fix is a bit ugly, but cannot think of another solution for now, at
least this **should** not break anything else.
And now I go find myself a very remote, high and lonely mountain, climb
to its top, roar "I hate proxies!" a few times, and relax hearing the echos...
This commit does the main integration of workspaces, which is a design we agreed on during the 2.8 UI workshop (see https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/UI/Workshop_Writeup)
Workspaces should generally be stable, I'm not aware of any remaining bugs (or I've forgotten them :) ). If you find any, let me know!
(Exception: mode switching button might get out of sync with actual mode in some cases, would consider that a limitation/ToDo. Needs to be resolved at some point.)
== Main Changes/Features
* Introduces the new Workspaces as data-blocks.
* Allow storing a number of custom workspaces as part of the user configuration. Needs further work to allow adding and deleting individual workspaces.
* Bundle a default workspace configuration with Blender (current screen-layouts converted to workspaces).
* Pressing button to add a workspace spawns a menu to select between "Duplicate Current" and the workspaces from the user configuration. If no workspaces are stored in the user configuration, the default workspaces are listed instead.
* Store screen-layouts (`bScreen`) per workspace.
* Store an active screen-layout per workspace. Changing the workspace will enable this layout.
* Store active mode in workspace. Changing the workspace will also enter the mode of the new workspace. (Note that we still store the active mode in the object, moving this completely to workspaces is a separate project.)
* Store an active render layer per workspace.
* Moved mode switch from 3D View header to Info Editor header.
* Store active scene in window (not directly workspace related, but overlaps quite a bit).
* Removed 'Use Global Scene' User Preference option.
* Compatibility with old files - a new workspace is created for every screen-layout of old files. Old Blender versions should be able to read files saved with workspace support as well.
* Default .blend only contains one workspace ("General").
* Support appending workspaces.
Opening files without UI and commandline rendering should work fine.
Note that the UI is temporary! We plan to introduce a new global topbar
that contains the workspace options and tabs for switching workspaces.
== Technical Notes
* Workspaces are data-blocks.
* Adding and removing `bScreen`s should be done through `ED_workspace_layout` API now.
* A workspace can be active in multiple windows at the same time.
* The mode menu (which is now in the Info Editor header) doesn't display "Grease Pencil Edit" mode anymore since its availability depends on the active editor. Will be fixed by making Grease Pencil an own object type (as planned).
* The button to change the active workspace object mode may get out of sync with the mode of the active object. Will either be resolved by moving mode out of object data, or we'll disable workspace modes again (there's a `#define USE_WORKSPACE_MODE` for that).
* Screen-layouts (`bScreen`) are IDs and thus stored in a main list-base. Had to add a wrapper `WorkSpaceLayout` so we can store them in a list-base within workspaces, too. On the long run we could completely replace `bScreen` by workspace structs.
* `WorkSpace` types use some special compiler trickery to allow marking structs and struct members as private. BKE_workspace API should be used for accessing those.
* Added scene operators `SCENE_OT_`. Was previously done through screen operators.
== BPY API Changes
* Removed `Screen.scene`, added `Window.scene`
* Removed `UserPreferencesView.use_global_scene`
* Added `Context.workspace`, `Window.workspace` and `BlendData.workspaces`
* Added `bpy.types.WorkSpace` containing `screens`, `object_mode` and `render_layer`
* Added Screen.layout_name for the layout name that'll be displayed in the UI (may differ from internal name)
== What's left?
* There are a few open design questions (T50521). We should find the needed answers and implement them.
* Allow adding and removing individual workspaces from workspace configuration (needs UI design).
* Get the override system ready and support overrides per workspace.
* Support custom UI setups as part of workspaces (hidden panels, hidden buttons, customizable toolbars, etc).
* Allow enabling add-ons per workspace.
* Support custom workspace keymaps.
* Remove special exception for workspaces in linking code (so they're always appended, never linked). Depends on a few things, so best to solve later.
* Get the topbar done.
* Workspaces need a proper icon, current one is just a placeholder :)
Reviewed By: campbellbarton, mont29
Tags: #user_interface, #bf_blender_2.8
Maniphest Tasks: T50521
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2451
Note for users
==============
The active_layer option used for the filebrowser operators is now called
active_collection.
If there is no collections in the scenelayer or if this option is not selected
we automatically create a new collection for the new objects.
This is the same behaviour of trying to add a new object when there is
no collection.
Note for developers
===================
For those cases I moved the object user count handling from readfile to
the scene collection system. It's working fine for those, but we still
need to re-visit this for Add objects, and Duplicate - In those cases
the usercount is 2 when it should be 1.
Reviewers: mont29, sergey
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2686
Issue here was that py API code was keeping references (pointers) to the
liniked data-blocks, which can actually be duplicated and then deleted
during the 'make local' process...
Would have like to find a better way than passing optional GHash to get
the oldid->newid mapping, but could not think of a better idea.
This commit adds operators and Outliner menu entries to reload or relocate a library,
and to delete or replace a datablock.
RNA ID API is also extended to allow ID deletion and remapping from python.
Review task: D2027 (https://developer.blender.org/D2027).
Reviewed by campbellbarton, thanks a bunch.
Previous to 2.77, this used to be default behavior, was changed in rB591f4549c958b.
However, in most append cases, you do want a full localization of your data, so this new behavior
is kept by default, but there is now an option in append operator to only localize the 'first level'
of data (i.e. datablocks from linked library itself, and not those from other 'sub-libraries').
This commit adds a new `wm_files_link.c` which contains everything related to append/link code,
moved from `wm_operators.c` (rather small currently, but will expand quite a bit with future reload & asset works).
It also moves all load/save .bland files (and related userpref/startup stuff) from `wm_operators.c`
to `wm_files.c` (some helper funcs were already there).
This also makes `wm_operators.c` significantly lighter.
