This new private API will allow settings-view to communicate
asynchronously with the main process to resolve proxies, instead of
using `remote` and blocking the renderer process during startup.
Instead of using `localStorage` to store and retrieve the project
history, with this commit we will use `StateStore` so that we can
retrieve state asynchronously without blocking Atom during startup.
This commit will register the `display-added` and `display-removed`
events only once in the main process in order to disable zoom (see
https://github.com/atom/atom/pull/11345) directly instead of
unnecessarily paying for I/O in the renderer process during startup.
Fixes#13729
Previously, when adding a window, we were unable to read its current
project paths out of the hash of the URL during window initialization
because the window still considered itself to be loading. Rather than
fixing this issue, we decided to completely eliminate the sharing of
state between processes in the window.location and instead switch to
cached synchronous RPC for the loadSettings and a dedicated RPC-based
mechanism for the project paths.
Calling `workspace.open` in an opener doesn't work properly with options
like `split: left` because it causes the opened item to be added to the
workspace as a side-effect. Since workspace openers are intended to be
used during the process of calling `workspace.open`, we need to use
`openTextFile`, which just creates an editor but does not attach it to
the workspace.
Context: I'm trying to run atom in the browser and have strict mode enabled and it threw on this line. We need it to be a fat arrow otherwise it's adding it to the window (or undefined in strict mode).
Previously, we used to save the window's state in the renderer process
`beforeunload` event handler: because of the synchronous nature of event
handlers and the asynchronous design of IndexedDB, this could
potentially not save anything if windows close fast enough to prevent
IndexedDB from committing the pending transaction containing the state.
(Ref.: https://mzl.la/2bXCXDn)
With this commit, we will intercept the `before-quit` events on
`electron.app` and the `close` event on `BrowserWindow` (which will fire
respectively before quitting the application and before closing a
window), and prevent them from performing the default action. We will
then ask each renderer process to save its state and, finally, close the
window and/or the app.
