[PATCH v6 xdg-shell-unstable-v6] xdg-shell: Add min/max size requests

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi,

----- Original Message -----
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 1:56 AM, Jonas Ådahl <jadahl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > This makes it sound like the compositor will have to obay the limits.
> > Did we end up with requiring that a correctly working compositor never
> > tries to configure a size that is not within the set bounds? I think it
> > should be cleared out anyhow, what the client can rely upon here anyhow.
> >
> 
> No the compositor is not required to obey the limits! This whole discussion
> was based on examples of tiled window management and complaints about the
> calculator being ugly due to being scaled, compared to X11 where the tiled
> window manager requested sizes outside the size range, and the client
> obeyed it.
[...]
> If the compositor cannot request a larger size then all these patches are
> entirely pointless!!!

Seems everyone has a different idea and a consensus might be hardly achievable here.

Thing is, the client still have the option of not ack'ing the configure event, so the final word is (and remains) with the client, that's it.

Considering this, not sure we need to rephrase the description once again.

Cheers,
Olivier