[PATCH weston 10/10] Remove workspaces protocol

[Jonas Ådahl]

On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 10:28:53AM +0200, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> On Wed,  4 Nov 2015 16:49:59 +0800
> Jonas Ådahl <jadahl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > It doesn't fill a useful function and is not intended to be continued.
> > If there is need for workspace manipulation from clients a protocol
> > based on those future needs need to be properly designed.
> > workspaces.xml is probably not very relevant since it did the bare
> > minimum.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl at gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  Makefile.am             |   7 ---
> >  clients/window.c        |  57 +-----------------------
> >  desktop-shell/shell.c   | 113 ------------------------------------------------
> >  protocol/workspaces.xml |  27 ------------
> >  4 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 203 deletions(-)
> >  delete mode 100644 protocol/workspaces.xml
> 
> Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen at collabora.co.uk>
> 
> Are we left with any way to move a window from a workspace to another?

Yes, there are keybindings for that still left.

> 
> Should we have multiple workspaces in vanilla Weston/desktop at all?
> 
> Do we have any Weston core features that would be left unused in
> vanilla Weston with this patch or with the removal of workspaces?
> 
> This is mostly food for thought for potentially simplifying desktop
> shell in future.

I have no objections to someone removing it.


Jonas

> 
> 
> Thanks,
> pq