[Wayland-bugs] [Bug 695861] Allow to use custom surfaces for GdkWindows in Wayland

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https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=695861
  gtk+ | wayland | 3.7.x

--- Comment #8 from Kristian Høgsberg <krh at bitplanet.net> 2013-03-22 14:00:38 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> How about some more bikeshedding. The documentation seems unnecessarily cloudy: 
> 
> " expected to register the surface as some type of surface using some Wayland
> interface"
> 
> Can we have some actual use surface types and Wayland interfaces mentioned
> here, maybe together with some actual use cases ?

A good example would be writing a panel or on-screen-keyboard as an
out-of-process helper - as opposed to having those in the compositor process. 
In this case the underlying surface isn't a wl_shell surface and the panel or
OSK client need to identify the wl_surface as a panel or OSK to the compositor.

The assumption is that the compositor will expose a private interface to the
special client that lets the client identify the wl_surface as a panel or such.

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