seprate window management component

2011-09-15 Thread cat
-- Forwarded message -- From: cat zixo...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:27 AM Subject: Re: seprate window management component To: Michal Suchanek hramr...@centrum.cz On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:03 AM, Michal Suchanek hramr...@centrum.cz wrote: On 14 September 2011 18:21

Re: seprate window management component

2011-09-15 Thread Bill Spitzak
Michal Suchanek wrote: Still the clients should not know about the windows of other clients so they would not know how their windows stack and not knowing that they can't really decide it either. I don't think the clients will know about any windows other than a few ids that the compositor

Re: seprate window management component

2011-09-15 Thread Sam Spilsbury
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Michal Suchanek hramr...@centrum.cz wrote: Hello, On 14 September 2011 16:55, cat zixo...@gmail.com wrote: would it be to much trouble to make window management a proxy program? The wayland server has to know how the windows stack but the clients are not

Re: seprate window management component

2011-09-14 Thread Michal Suchanek
Hello, On 14 September 2011 16:55, cat zixo...@gmail.com wrote: would it be to much trouble to make window management a proxy program? The wayland server has to know how the windows stack but the clients are not trusted to tell it how the windows should stack so either the server has to figure

Re: seprate window management component

2011-09-14 Thread cat
well if clients are allowed to decide how their own windows stack, the window management proxy would be in control. the idea I have is that there isn't any special protocol changes (though that might be bad for this system), but because of the proxy, a call to or a response from (or lack of one)

Re: seprate window management component

2011-09-14 Thread Russell Shaw
On 15/09/11 04:33, Michal Suchanek wrote: On 14 September 2011 20:26, Bill Spitzakspit...@gmail.com wrote: I think the idea is that what you are calling the window manager is in fact a library running in the client process and memory space. It would probably be part of the toolkit. Which is