[PATCH 0/2] xdg-shell: Proposal to be more generic for decorations

[Dima Ryazanov]

Overall, I like the idea - it seems to solve the issues with raise/lower,
etc.

I wonder, though, if removing the explicit move/resize/etc. requests makes
it too restrictive. Suppose that, for whatever reason, the client wants to
trigger a move or a resize using the right or middle button. Maybe it's a
weirdly-shaped surface (like weston-flower) where all of it is draggable,
or some other strange case. As far as I can tell, it's possible in v6, but
not v7.

Another, more real use case: nautilus has a bunch of buttons in the
titlebar. If you click them, they work as usual - but dragging a button
triggers a shell move. That means, at the time the client receives a mouse
down event, it doesn't know yet what it should do. Once it gets a mouse
move, it sends a shell move request. Would that still be possible in v7?


On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Adam Goode <agoode at google.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There were many different opinions and suggestions for how to allow
> for raise and lower to be bound to mouse clicks in titlebars. This
> is one possible way forward. It removes some of the semantic requests
> in xdg-shell and replaces it with a "interact_with_decoration"
> request that lets more window management logic move into the compositor.
>
> Comments welcome. I know this is a tricky issue, but I hope this
> is leading somewhat in the right direction.
>
>
> Adam
>
>
>
> Adam Goode (2):
>   xdg-shell: Introduce protocol v7
>   xdg-shell: Fold several client-side decoration requests into a generic
>     request
>
>  COPYING                                      |    1 +
>  unstable/xdg-shell/xdg-shell-unstable-v7.xml | 1012
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 1013 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 unstable/xdg-shell/xdg-shell-unstable-v7.xml
>
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