On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 10:29:28 -0500 Igor Korot <ikoro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > I believe with any Wayland stuff you will fail to use absolute positioning. > > you absolutely have to use X11 and forget about Wayland.. > > The Wayland devs are NOT CONVINCED enough to support absolute > positioning and will just tell you to use X11. Hi Igor, you seem to be mixing things up here. It is true that Wayland maintainers are extremely resistant to suggestions to add global coordinate based client-driven window positioning to any Wayland extension intended to be used by regular desktop applications. However, all the mentioned conditions apply together. A compositor can choose to support Wayland extensions aimed at special-purpose clients that actually know better themselves to position themselves than the compositor. Integrable desktop components fall into this category. Non-desktops have no such rules at all. Anyone is free to add any positioning protocol they need when it does not aim for generic desktop use. Whether it is a good or bad idea is another matter. In-vehicle infotainment systems have favoured this approach. There is an even less restricted case where you have a special-purpose compositor built for a very specific use case. It sounds like Huy has this case in mind. This case may not even need any custom Wayland extension and could possibly support generic applications by special window management rules inside the compositor. This makes the compositor a part of the overall application, known just from the client app_id where and how it need to be positioned. One can pick their path, but if it requires absolute window positioning dictated by clients, then it won't be usable as a regular desktop application. Thanks, pq
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