On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 10:12:11 +0200 Pekka Paalanen <ppaala...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 19:58:43 +0100 > Dorota Czaplejewicz <dorota.czaplejew...@puri.sm> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > over the past month, the zwp_text_input_v3 protocol has moved to real > > devices and had seen unprecedented usage. Together with that, it also > > got a reality check, from which it didn't come unscathed. There are > > some issues identified: > > > > - a hint that there's no need for an on-screen keyboard > > - allow deleting text even when surrounding text is unknown > > - making it harder for compositors to send uninformed updates > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/merge_requests/16 > > - possibly graceful switching within text inputs > > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/2437 > > - sending control events (submit, next field, undo) to gain > > independence from a virtual keyboard protocol > > > > I might have left something out. > > > > Since they are all relatively unrelated, they can thankfully be > > discussed separately. But merging them in separately would create > > needlessly many combinations of possible supported versions. > > > > A new integration branch on gitlab would keep related merge requests > > on the wayland-protocols repo, and it could be merged as one large > > update once it's sufficiently hardened. Or is there another way to do > > this? > > Hi Dorota, > > sounds like you have a good reason to have an upstream branch like > that, so that the work in progress won't stop the master branch from > releasing. I would be fine with that. > > Another way could be to start a new major version XML file, and exclude > it from install by default. No-one could use it until you make it > installable, so there would be no need to maintain implementations of > the intermediate steps. > > Mind the wayland-protocols governance rules. > > > Thanks, > pq Hi, seeing the answers so far, I think starting a new branch is a good idea. In case there are major changes, a new major version could be created out of the new branch anyway. Currently, there's only one change that's important and potentially backwards-incompatible, but that depends on the future discussion (deleting text being broke), so a new version might not be necessary yet. Could someone with the permissions create such a branch? Thanks, Dorota
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