Wayland Window Management Proposal

[Michal Suchanek]

On 13 May 2011 11:26, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 06:22:01PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>> You can't expect that every single client is high-priority and lag-free.
>
> Run better clients, then? Or stop trying to micro-optimise for the case
> of pressing the close button on an unresponsive client?
>

This is not about pressing the close button. It need not have an
immediate response and people can accept that, there are workarounds
and you close windows only so often.

However, window resizes need to be responsive otherwise you introduce
lag, possibly to the point that the person moving the mouse has no
clue what is going on the moment a window resize is initiated.

Lag is something that can easily kill otherwise workable interface,
and fractions of second might seem reasonable on the drawing board but
they are still lag.

Lag-free resize is not something reasonably doable if you have to wait
for the client to respond for every size change to take place.

X can handle remote clients and low priority clients participating in
the desktop environment.

If Wayland can't then it is not an evolution of X, it is a step backward.

And this is not skipping a  micro-optimization, this is closing the
desktop for entry of whole classes of clients.

Thanks

Michal