[Question] Z-order management in Wayland

[yan.wang at linux.intel.com]

Thanks. I will check it.

Yan Wang

> Yan,
>
> No way to change order of top-level surfaces in current Wayland
> protocol.
> If you want to do it, you can extend protocol by yourself and implement
> own shell loaded on Weston.
>
> One example is http://projects.genivi.org/wayland-ivi-extension/.
> There is a similar use case in In-vehicle Infotainment system regarding
> consumption of power.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: wayland-devel
>> [mailto:wayland-devel-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of
>> yan.wang at linux.intel.com
>> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2014 5:03 PM
>> To: Jasper St. Pierre
>> Cc: yan.wang at linux.intel.com; wayland-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
>> Subject: Re: [Question] Z-order management in Wayland
>>
>> E.g. When we start a new application on mobile platform, previous
> running
>> application could be hidden and paused to reduce power consuming and
>> improve response speed. If we could adjust and get z-order status, we
>> could callback application to sleep. And when user restart this
>> application, we could just make this slept app waked up.
>>
>> Yan Wang
>>
>> > There is currently no way to influence the stacking order of
> top-level
>> > surfaces. Why do you need this?
>> > On Jul 31, 2014 9:28 AM, <yan.wang at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi, All,
>> >>    I found X provides raise/lower APIs to manger window Z-order.
> But
>> >> there isn't related APIs in Wayland/Weston.
>> >>    May it should be one design idea of Wayland in fact or I could
>> >> achieve this  by current Wayland protocol?
>> >>    Thanks.
>> >>
>> >> Yan Wang
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