[PATCH] Introduce set_size_hints xdg_surface request.

Jari Vetoniemi mailroxas at gmail.com
Tue Aug 5 12:07:39 PDT 2014


Rationale for this patch is to provide way for applications that can't go below/above
certain bounds to inform compositor about it.

More feedback is needed. For example are maximimum size useful for any
particular application?
---
 protocol/xdg-shell.xml | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/protocol/xdg-shell.xml b/protocol/xdg-shell.xml
index bd36231..6e48ae6 100644
--- a/protocol/xdg-shell.xml
+++ b/protocol/xdg-shell.xml
@@ -235,6 +235,24 @@
       <arg name="edges" type="uint" summary="which edge or corner is being dragged"/>
     </request>
 
+    <request name="set_size_hints">
+      <description summary="provide surface size hints">
+        Server should use these hints to figure out how much surface may be,
+        resized so that the content still remains sane. Hints will remain
+        the same until set_size_hints is requested again.
+
+        Hints set this way are double buffered. They will get applied on
+        the next commit.
+
+        These hints should take effect regardless of the surface state.
+        A size less than zero unsets the hint.
+      </description>
+      <arg name="min_width" type="int" summary="minimum width of the surface"/>
+      <arg name="min_height" type="int" summary="minimum height of the surface"/>
+      <arg name="max_width" type="int" summary="maximum width of the surface"/>
+      <arg name="max_height" type="int" summary="maximum height of the surface"/>
+    </request>
+
     <enum name="state">
       <description summary="types of state on the surface">
         The different state values used on the surface. This is designed for
-- 
2.0.3



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