Collaboration on standard Wayland protocol extensions

Martin Graesslin mgraesslin at kde.org
Wed Mar 30 06:13:17 UTC 2016


On Tuesday, March 29, 2016 8:12:32 AM CEST Drew DeVault wrote:
> On 2016-03-29 10:20 AM, Martin Graesslin wrote:
> > > - Output configuration
> > 
> > we have our kwin-kscreen specific protocol for this. You can find it at:
> > https://quickgit.kde.org/?
> > p=kwayland.git&a=blob&h=9ebe342f7939b6dec45e2ebf3ad69e772ec66543&hb=818e32
> > 0bd99867ea9c831edfb68c9671ef7dfc47&f=src
> > %2Fclient%2Fprotocols%2Foutput-management.xml
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > https://quickgit.kde.org/?
> > p=kwayland.git&a=blob&h=747fc264b7e6a40a65a0a04464c2c98036a84f0f&hb=818e32
> > 0bd99867ea9c831edfb68c9671ef7dfc47&f=src
> > %2Fclient%2Fprotocols%2Foutputdevice.xml
> > 
> > It's designed for our specific needs in Plasma. If it's useful for others,
> > we are happy to share and collaborate.
> 
> It looks like something I could use in Sway. I like it. I'm going to see
> how well it integrates with Sway and probably write a command line tool
> to interface with it. I think that it would be useful to put this under
> the permissions system, though, once that's put together.

We already have a command line tool for it :-)

It's kscreen-doctor which you can find in libkscreen. I've cc-ed sebas who 
wrote this tool (and also the protocol).

And yes it's something for the permission system. We clearly do not want 
everybody to be able to change the screen setup.

Cheers
Martin
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 181 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/attachments/20160330/7090b6dd/attachment.sig>


More information about the wayland-devel mailing list