Thoughts about decoration information in the xdg_shell

[Thiago Macieira]

On segunda-feira, 18 de novembro de 2013 06:37:47, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> That sounds look a good solution to me!

Make it simpler: all clients MUST be able to draw decorations. That's what 
Wayland up until now requires anyway.

A client MAY ask the compositor to draw decorations. If and only if the 
compositor replies that it will, the client is then not required to draw them. 
The only compositor likely to even understand this extension is kwin: it will 
reply "sure, I'll decorate" for any apps that request it. If necessary, the 
request can include a suggestion level on how strongly the client wants the 
compositor to do the decoration.

If the compositor does not reply to the extension, the application MUST 
decorate itself (according to whatever rules are prevalent, including no 
decorations for a tablet or mobile environment, etc.). 

If the application does not request it, the compositor MUST NOT decorate the 
windows -- it must assume the client is doing it properly. I'm guessing that 
most toolkits will not request it and will not provide a way for applications 
to do it either.

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