On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Jonas Ådahl <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Scott Moreau <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Jonas Ådahl <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Hardening <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > This patch adds a wlrandr extension. It is useful to test >>> > mode switching. The patch provides the weston-switch-mode >>> > utility that can be use quite the same way as xrandr to >>> > change graphical modes. For now only the DRM backend supports >>> > mode switching, but other may follow. >> >> >> Hi Jonas, >> >>> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I think the consensus has been not to have a protocol like this as >>> clients should not dictate what resolution an output should have. A >>> client can ask nicely via the fullscreen API a preferred resolution, >>> but it should not set it. The point with this is that no client should >>> be able to change resolution, crash, and then leave the compositor in >>> an invalid state (read wrong resolution). The shell, however, can have >>> its own private protocol for doing this, and then whatever user >>> interface wants to have to change resolution, but it should not be in >>> a client facing protocol. >> >> >> What you stated is the common consensus but the fact is, we have no way to >> change the output resolution in weston while it is running. This is not a >> secure protocol and any client can use it, true. However, we need a way to >> do this right now so we can shake out the bugs that do not detect mode >> switching properly. The outstanding case is desktop-shell components, panel >> and background. It would be interesting to find a way to secure a protocol >> such as this but aside from handling mode switching directly in the >> compositor somehow, there's really not many sane options left. Unless you >> have a better way to switch modes while weston is running? >> > > One simple (but not as convenient I suppose) way would be to add debug > bindings to the shell that increase or decrease resolution according > to some resolution list. I haven
(slipped and gmail thought I meant send).. 't really thought about other user interfaces, but just wanted to point out my understanding of the consensus. Jonas > >> - Scott >> >>> >>> >>> Jonas >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
