Compiz is Dead - Beryl Lives Again? Enter - Northfield/Norwood

[Casey Dahlin]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:59:22PM -0600, Scott Moreau wrote:
> Hi Casey,
> 
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Casey Dahlin <cdahlin at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:51:07PM -0600, Scott Moreau wrote:
> >> Yes, there is no reason to fork libwayland. And I don't feel this is a
> >> true fork, just a temporary rename to avoid the confusion it might
> >> otherwise cause, remaining under the 'wayland' name. Wayland has been
> >> in my github repo since I've uploaded it there. The only difference
> >> now is, the name has been changed and an official fork announcement
> >> has been made by request.
> >
> > ...ok. I'll leave how exactly that's less confusing as an exercise to the
> > reader.
> >
> > Seriously, if you'd just forked Weston and left Wayland alone I'd be on your
> > side. Even happy. This, however, is just making a political mess.
> >
> > --CJD
> 
> I'm not sure where the confusion is. Northfield == Wayland but with a
> few changes to wl_shell_surface interface for minimize/maximize/close
> stuff. These changes are actually being discussed on the mailing list
> for possible review and inclusion. Once these basic events/requests go
> upstream, there will not be a need for northfield as a patched version
> of wayland. In reality, this is just a project name that !wayland. The
> need for this custom libwayland is only necessary until the new
> protocol is pushed upstream at which point, this need should be
> eliminated.
> 

Shell surface was in weston for awhile. Why not just wl_new_shell_surface in
your forked weston's protocol extensions?

--CJD
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