[PATCH 1/2] protocol: Allow output changes to be treated atomically

Alexander Larsson alexl at redhat.com
Wed May 22 00:46:05 PDT 2013


On mån, 2013-05-20 at 09:51 +0300, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> On Thu, 16 May 2013 15:49:35 +0200
> alexl at redhat.com wrote:
> 
> > From: Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com>
> > 
> > This add a wl_output.done event which is send after every group
> > of events caused by some property change. This allows clients to treat
> > changes touching multiple events in an atomic fashion.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> why did you end up deciding that this is better than using the geometry
> event as the end signal?

Some other people wanted it. I don't know which is best, they are
essentially identical. Although one advantage of "done" is that it
allows us to extend e.g. the "mode" event also.





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