On 2018-04-13 4:59 PM, Jonas Ådahl wrote: > Neither these need the "set_mode" or "preferred_mode" stuff.
I don't think I'm following. I wonder if you have time to write up a proposed revision to the patch? > > Clients have an arbitrary surface in which they can render whatever they > > want, including decorations. Compositors have an arbitrary surface in > > which they can render whatever they want, including decorations. The > > protocol acknowledges that after negotiations either party can do > > whatever they want, but communicates their choice to each other so they > > can make more educated decisions. > > Not sure what you mean here. The surface is from the client here only, > and the client has no wiggle room in the proposed protocol, only the > compositor. When I spoke of the compositor "surface" I meant like the GBM buffer or whatever else it's drawing client surfaces on. And the client does have wiggle room, like I said it can draw whatever it wants. > > We've talked about similar approaches to other things in wlroots and, at > > least for our group, the consensus is that we don't generally like > > changing behaviors simply based on the existence of a resource. We may > > as well be explicit. > > As the protocol is defined here, the only way for these clients to > function is to not bind the global though, as otherwise they might be > force to do something that they cannot. I think I see where you're getting at in these comments. I'll keep this in mind for the next revision. > That's something that can be done too. What I meant, however, was to > rename the XML file and the directory which it is in. If new window > types are added etc, their requirements might differ, but making the > "protocol group" slightly more generic sounding, it'd be more flexible > for additions in the future. Gotcha, easy change. _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
