I think that keeping it only promotes using it and further propagating its use, so I'm in favor of removal.
On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 11:22 AM Derek Foreman <der...@osg.samsung.com> wrote: > Hello, > > As you all may know, xdg-shell v5 and xdg-shell stable can't currently > co-exist in the same compositor, as both define structures with the same > name (such as struct xdg_surface_interface). > > A solid effort was made to add functionality to wayland-scanner to > resolve this, but turned out to be a Very Hard Problem: > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-January/036549.html > > Is a good summary of where that patch series currently sits. > > That leaves us with a bit of a problem - weston currently support > xdg-shell v5, and that's blocking any chance of adopting xdg-shell final. > > It's my opinion that supporting xdg-shell final is rather important for > the wayland reference compositor. > > So, I think we need to consider removing xdg-shell v5 from weston and > its included clients as soon as is reasonable. > > It should probably be considered deprecated since the introduction of > xdg-shell v6 into wayland-protocols in late 2015. I'm sure there are > still users out there, but it has always been labeled "unstable" with a > firm promise that it would disappear eventually. > > Do we have any opinions on when we can strip this out? I think keeping > it for the next release and removing it immediately after is pragmatic > (with a firm warning in the release notes that this is coming). > > Myself, I'd be happy to start drafting patches to remove it immediately > - weston isn't intended to be anyone's desktop, so I don't think > arguments that some released software will fail to run on weston should > be given substantial weight... > > Also, I don't think toytoolkit clients failing to connect to a > compositor that only has v5 support is a major concern either. > > Thanks, > Derek > _______________________________________________ > wayland-devel mailing list > wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel >
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