minimized and stick windows

[Rafael Antognolli]

Hi Jason,

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net> wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
>
>
> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 6:04 PM, Rafael Antognolli <antognolli at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've been looking the Weston code relative to maximized windows, and
>> it seems that the respective code for minimized windows wouldn't be
>> hard to implement.
>>
>> The questions are: are there any plans to add it? Is there someone
>> already working on it? If not, would it be OK if I start submitting
>> patches to try to add support for this?
>
>
> A month or two ago, Scott Morreau was working on it.  However, his work
> never made into weston for a variety of reasons.  Personally, I'm glad to
> see someone interested in working on it again because it's something that
> wayland will need eventually.
>
> The place to start on it is probably with the following e-mail and the long
> string of replies:
>
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2013-March/007814.html
>
> There was quite a bit of discussion about how to handle it from a protocol
> level, but Scott never made an actual version 2.  I'd suggest you start by
> reading the chain of e-mails (it goes into April, not just March).  There
> were quite a few suggestions in there that could be incorporated.
> Hopefully, you can pick through the e-mail discussion and figure out what
> the consensus was.  It'd be good to have a pair of fresh eyes look at it.

Thanks for pointing that out. I just went through the chain of
e-mails, but I don't think there was a consensus there.

It also seems that the minimize implementation is a little more
complex than just hiding surfaces and marking some flags. Which makes
me not so comfortable doing an implementation without a consensus
about what should be implemented, and with some orientation.

That said, I'm not sure I'm really going to take this task.

Thank you for your support anyway.
--
Rafael Antognolli