Re: client side decorations

2011-05-11 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 10 May 2011 05:46, Russell Shaw rjs...@netspace.net.au wrote: On 10/05/11 07:29, Daniel wrote: El dg 08 de 05 de 2011 a les 09:47 -0700, en/na Bill Spitzak va escriure: Though it is possible, I don't like the idea of clients sending hints about what areas are the close box or window

Re: client side decorations

2011-05-11 Thread Russell Shaw
On 11/05/11 18:55, Michal Suchanek wrote: On 10 May 2011 05:46, Russell Shawrjs...@netspace.net.au wrote: On 10/05/11 07:29, Daniel wrote: El dg 08 de 05 de 2011 a les 09:47 -0700, en/na Bill Spitzak va escriure: Though it is possible, I don't like the idea of clients sending hints about

Re: Wayland Window Management Proposal

2011-05-11 Thread Mark Constable
On 2011-05-11, Michal Suchanek wrote: Maybe in an ideal world each application would be split into two (or more) processes, one taking care of the UI interaction and the other(s) doing the actual work so that the UI is always responsive. However, this is not the case and for moves and

Re: Wayland Window Management Proposal

2011-05-11 Thread cat
If I understand the proposal correctly this shouldn't be a problem. If the application becomes unresponsive the server has the ability to manage it (move, resize, raise, lower, possibly hide/show, and an option to kill it) and it knows if it didn't respond to events. I do think that there is one

Re: Wayland Window Management Proposal

2011-05-11 Thread Bill Spitzak
Michal Suchanek wrote: Moves and resizes implemented in the client can't work well. Any resize solution that does not allow an atomic on-screen update of a window to it's new size, with the resized decorations and contents, is unacceptable. The whole point of Wayland is that the user NEVER

Re: client side decorations

2011-05-11 Thread Bill Spitzak
Michal Suchanek wrote: I guess there is one thing that can be done. The compositor could publish a hint to the application that it takes care of decorating the windows (even if it is a tiling WM and in fact does not but the user does not want any decorations in the first place) Indeed this

Re: client side decorations

2011-05-11 Thread microcai
I personally does support and only support client side decoration. Move and resize ? Better be done in the server side. Average application should never care about where its windows is. The compositor cares and move them without notify the client. If the unusual application does care where its