[PATCH 20/21] docs: Add details about surfaces

matthias.clasen at gmail.com matthias.clasen at gmail.com
Fri Mar 29 22:11:46 PDT 2013


From: Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com>

Mention some of the characteristic differences to X:
no global positions, no access to foreign windows.
---
 doc/Wayland/en_US/Protocol.xml | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/Wayland/en_US/Protocol.xml b/doc/Wayland/en_US/Protocol.xml
index 58a5962..a645409 100644
--- a/doc/Wayland/en_US/Protocol.xml
+++ b/doc/Wayland/en_US/Protocol.xml
@@ -216,6 +216,8 @@
     <title>Surfaces</title>
     <para>
       Surfaces are created by the client.
+      Clients don't know the global position of their surfaces, and
+      cannot access other clients surfaces.
     </para>
     <para>
       See <xref linkend="protocol-spec-interface-wl_surface"/> for the protocol
-- 
1.8.1.4



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