Where to find most current draft of xdg-shell?

[Jonas Ådahl]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 04:08:56PM +0200, Martin Graesslin wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 19, 2016 8:57:14 PM CEST Jonas Ådahl wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 02:32:08PM +0200, Martin Graesslin wrote:
> > > Hi Wayland devs,
> > > 
> > > finally adding xdg-shell support in KWayland and KWin became the top-most
> > > item on my todo list. But I'm wondering: where do I find the most recent
> > > protocol draft and test clients for them?
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Thats great news!
> > 
> > The draft that is implemented in weston, mutter and various other
> > places is the "unstable version 5"[0] one, which you can find in
> > wayland-protocols release in
> > unstable/xdg-shell/xdg-shell-unstable-v5.xml.
> > 
> > As you might have seen here on the list we are currently working on
> > updating xdg-shell to fix various issues in v5. The current draft of the
> > v6 you can find on the branch wip/xdg-shell-unstable-v6 in
> > wayland-protocols repository[1].
> > 
> > In short, the accepted changes include semantical changes/clarifications
> > to when a client should attach buffers and how its surfaces are
> > configured, as well as a size limit hint (that was merged today).
> > 
> > There is also a proposed set of changes[2] that restructures the
> > interface layout, makes it possible to create non-grabbing popups (meant
> > to be used for tooltips and other popups that doesn't grab input), and
> > adds a method to make sure surfaces are positioned within the work area
> > region.
> > 
> > Note that there is so far no implementation of any xdg-shell unstable
> > v6 anywhere, since it is still evolving.
> > 
> > Feedback on the current draft and the proposed changes would of course
> > be very appreciated.
> 
> Thanks for the good summary. So best would be to implement v5 to be able to 
> actually test it (otherwise it's kind of pointless ;-) ) and have a good look 
> at v6 branch.

Pretty much!


Jonas

> 
> Cheers
> Martin
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Jonas
> > 
> > [0]
> > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/tree/unstable/xdg-sh
> > ell/xdg-shell-unstable-v5.xml [1]
> > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/log/?h=wip%2Fxdg-she
> > ll-unstable-v6 [2] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/5709/
> > 
> > > Cheers
> > > Martin
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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