[RFC] wl_surface scale and crop protocol extension

[Matthias Clasen]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> below is my first draft for a wl_surface scaling and cropping
> extension. I called it wl_scaler in the lack of a better name. It is
> designed similarly to the other wl_surface extensions wl_shell_surface
> and wl_subsurface.
>
> There probably isn't any interesting details to debate, right? ;-)
>
> I'd like to have a better name for it, and you might want the set
> request split into two or three, or not, but otherwise I'm quite
> satisfied with it. I tried to take into account all existing protocol
> that interacts with this.
>
> Comments? Is the language clear?

Can you describe some use cases where you envision using this ? Thats
always a good starting point for discussing an api. The only other
comment I have is that when you talk about scaling, you really need to
say something about the interpolation method.