Stabilizing wl_scaler protocol extension

[Alexander Preisinger]

Hi pq,

I use it in my wayland-next branch (for unstable wayland stuff) of the mpv
player: http://mpv.io/
In this commit:
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/77cc885b44a9e95e5c3c9ae4961b9958ff5cf643

I only just now realized that I should just use set_destination for my use
case.
So setting the destination separately is definitely a use case and I think
the set request is redundant.

So far I really like the scaler extensions. But the scaling quality has
lots of room for improvement.
I thought about improving the scaling quality, but didn't had the
opportunity to look into it.

That's all from me.

Best Regards,
Alexander



2014-09-16 11:09 GMT+02:00 Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> wl_scaler has been sitting in Weston for quite some time now:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/tree/protocol/scaler.xml
>
> I would like to collect comments and opinions on the protocol extension:
> - Is it ready?
> - Are the interfaces ok? As in, have a wl_viewport created for a
>   wl_surface, instead of having wl_surface argument on a global request.
> - Are the names ok?
> - Should wl_viewport.set be removed as completely redundant?
> - Do we care about maintaining compatibility with the current wl_scaler
>   protocol, when moving it into Wayland?
>
> Obviously, if we change anything, it won't be compatible with the
> current version.
>
> My goal is to move wl_scaler or equivalent into the Wayland repository.
> That effort is now tracked at:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83918
>
> (Also that I wouldn't forget again, as I already did. :-p)
>
> I don't know how widely or little it has been used so far, so simply
> pointing out projects that already use it would be nice, too.
>
> Originally, I was waiting for the Presentation queueing to mature a bit
> before declaring wl_scaler as stable, because queueing seemed to
> require a split in the scaler state. That split is there now, and while
> I haven't really worked on Presentation for a long time, I do not see
> further changes needed. And even this split was introduced in a
> backwards compatible manner.
>
> I don't have a deadline for this, but now would be a good time to bring
> out all your critique about the wl_scaler/wl_viewport extension on the
> record. :-)
>
>
> Thanks,
> pq
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