So you're effectively proposing that the "transport" of the data between plugins and the widget is always Wayland, even if the session is running under X11? That sounds like a good idea to me if it's possible to implement. I would definitely welcome a proof of concept!
Thanks, Cosimo On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpie...@mecheye.net> wrote: > We could indeed write a tiny Wayland compositor that composited a single > wl_surface as a GTK+ widget, and I wouldn't feel too bad about it. We could > even do it while under X11, and it might be an interesting proof of > concept. I could do a PoC if you guys want. > On Jan 25, 2015 8:05 AM, "Cosimo Cecchi" <cosi...@gnome.org> wrote: > >> Fair enough, those are good points. >> To rephrase my last message I am not well-versed in the details of >> subsurfaces and how they would help in this case, so I will appreciate help >> to evolve my API proposal in that direction :-) >> >> Cosimo >> >> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <eba...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> hi; >>> >>> On 25 January 2015 at 13:31, Philip Withnall <phi...@tecnocode.co.uk> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >> That's why my proposal doesn't enforce this specific design; I'm >>> >> definitely open to think more about how a multi-process design looks >>> >> like, but I wouldn't want to block until that is figured out. >>> > >>> > To me, the security and rendering architecture of this seems pretty >>> core >>> > in the design, so I _would_ block on figuring it out. It doesn’t feel >>> > like the kind of thing which can easily be bolted on or fixed >>> > afterwards. >>> >>> I tend to agree; we need to start designing our API with sandboxing >>> and security context separation from the start, these days, otherwise >>> we'll have nothing but grief (in the form of API changes or, worse, >>> complete rewrites) down the line. >>> >>> ciao, >>> Emmanuele. >>> >>> -- >>> https://www.bassi.io >>> [@] ebassi [@gmail.com] >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gtk-devel-list mailing list >> gtk-devel-list@gnome.org >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list >> >>
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