Wayland Window Management Proposal

[Michal Suchanek]

On 17 May 2011 18:01, Sam Spilsbury <smspillaz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think the wayland compositor could track how long the clients take to
>> respond to events. They would only disable if they suddenly took several
>> times longer than before. If the recorded lag exceeds a threshold the
>> compositor could resort to rubber-band resize.
>
> What is a "response to an event"?
>
> Avoiding a system where clients are making needless communication with
> the compositor all the time just so that you can implement a fall-back
> policy when client-side policy doesn't work would probably be a good
> thing.

In the case of a resize event the response includes submitting a
buffer containing resized window content to the compositor.

The compositor requires this new resized content to draw the window so
it cannot be avoided.

Thanks

Michal