Place daemons should not emit PlaceEntryInfo when local properties change. This visibly removes flicker from the place rendering

(bzr r449)

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/unity/unity-place.vala b/unity/unity-place.vala
index 5d0317dd9..f2bb93096 100644
--- a/unity/unity-place.vala
+++ b/unity/unity-place.vala
@@ -842,6 +842,7 @@ namespace Unity.Place {
 private string _dbus_path;
 private bool _exported = false;
 private HashTable<string, _EntrySignals?> entry_signals;
+ private Gee.Set<string> ignore_remote_notify_props;
 
 /*
 * Properties
@@ -873,6 +874,12 @@ namespace Unity.Place {
 construct {
 service = new ServiceImpl (_dbus_path);
 entry_signals = new HashTable<string, _EntrySignals?>(str_hash, str_equal);
+ 
+ ignore_remote_notify_props = new Gee.HashSet<string> ();
+ ignore_remote_notify_props.add ("active-search");
+ ignore_remote_notify_props.add ("active-global-search");
+ ignore_remote_notify_props.add ("active");
+ ignore_remote_notify_props.add ("active-section");
 }
 
 public Controller (string dbus_path)
@@ -1016,10 +1023,8 @@ namespace Unity.Place {
 return;
 }
 
- /* Don't emit signals on the bus when the search changes.
- * The search is purely a local property */
- if ("active-search" == pspec.get_name () ||
- "active-global-search" == pspec.get_name ())
+ /* Don't emit signals on the bus that are strictly local metadata */
+ if (pspec.get_name () in ignore_remote_notify_props)
 return;
 
 entry_service.queue_place_entry_info_changed_signal ();