On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Pavel Kretov <fireguraf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > | I think there is a chance to get it part of the standard, but given > | that most "mainstream window managers" are working on Wayland > | currently I wouldn't expect that they will implement support for > | it. On Wayland it is just an internal detail to the window > | manager. > > Erm... How can it be so? I cannot believe Wayland is not going to > introduce a standard of some kind for windows management? This is > political design decision or Wayland team just didn't developed their > specifications yet? > Wayland considers window management the responsibility of the Wayland compositor, for security and simplicity reasons. There are no standard APIs to support external panels or pagers, though some compositors and desktop environments might develop their own. > | You need to prepare a change to the spec. The tricky part here is > | to keep backwards compatibility. We must expect that some > | applications do "smart" things like stopping video playback if they > | are not on the current desktop. (That's the main reason why KWin > | didn't go the road i3 went: we cannot break existing > | applications). > > Thank you a lot for interesting example. I had some ideas about > possible implementation, but now things got a bit more complicated. > I think I need to figure out more use cases like that one. > > ——— Pavel Kretov. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1 > Comment: GPGTools - https://gpgtools.org > > iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJU+LQiAAoJEHpTboV0Z/GsTnkP/AsQC1KaKlsNICqbgUDCuESw > /yKYbcmj2vCB8HXhLAN6yrqfMOartG5mb4MUaPKHU/zyS6S8q7nQvL3TbsWCXxMb > CWzcZ3p/ewfTExdLED72H+RRqbhVmcUwWjKu/nwaHPIoXR48NXNjCWWrt9h9MQiH > wSSDIOh4SqqGcF8a15g2vSp02b88FuitnRqc5WO26V2SQGHMPGttGSI3VdVj6S1+ > bbgf/g4+jxB5Eg02y/CZsdYVbb9My36uRckTe0Xz4RHoJageyuZaGa2QSeqeOdqH > 8QVN5/ZW7BRBP6jezyAcdxFTeGaaiLpa9xyK6ZlEw4yj1Znd+ICL91fuQePNTuO5 > Ew3kTSG/n96dbC2DUVdmoBqSvSz0QlirlcX7JFNtOAproO4Zhh5WuvJDjoigrxSt > /ll6U3Tg/ut4pyxsBWfEX1Ou7buM5yrby4Iy+ExrdJPjg0vnNXBgK1j/RvsqJDBQ > 8P0lWXgNNl6JMG7JURYNJg7dLdZUI9pVidl8WbGdol1Qcz4r270EeDsGfzs9Waze > hhvF5mE3Qywni1ATP01psCGYsDVIEXvs8hk3nNaSZLkqabw08Mhe5xCJG5R5DAzh > 7pd+EG925oHdQ+xKXYYVOZK09kLNiQUDE979MmmUkw4DoYAKIwJqXGC45MLnkJyz > LVK+UuATk07bs3G5e91w > =ouEQ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > wm-spec-list mailing list > wm-spec-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/wm-spec-list > -- Jasper
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