[PATCH wayland-protocols 3/4] tablet: restrict the cursor surface to one per tool

[Peter Hutterer]

The initial approach was to allow one surface to be re-used between tools,
seats and even used together as wl_pointer cursor surface. This has a few
drawbacks, most of which are related to managing the surface correctly in the
compositor. For example, the same cursor surface could have two different
hotspots. Animated cursors should animate independently rather than update at
the same time.

Furthermore: a client cannot know when a surface will cease being used as a
cursor surface. The basic assumption of "after focus out" is an implementation
detail in the compositor and unless the client unsets the cursor it is not
guaranteed that the surface is released. This again makes sharing a surface
less obvious - you cannot know if the wl_pointer surface is still in use when
you set it for a new wp_tablet_tool.

Avoid these headaches (and push some of them to the clientl) by simply
restricting a wl_surface to be assigned to a single tool. For the 99% use case
where we have one tablet with two tools (pen + eraser) this means we merely
get two extra surfaces, and the two don't usually share the same cursor shape
anyway. If sharing is absolutely, a client may still opt to share the
underlying wl_buffer.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
---
 unstable/tablet/tablet-unstable-v2.xml | 12 +++++-------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/unstable/tablet/tablet-unstable-v2.xml b/unstable/tablet/tablet-unstable-v2.xml
index e7b8626..d3f57ff 100644
--- a/unstable/tablet/tablet-unstable-v2.xml
+++ b/unstable/tablet/tablet-unstable-v2.xml
@@ -225,13 +225,11 @@
 	and pending input regions become undefined, and the wl_surface is
 	unmapped.
 
-	This request gives the surface the role of a cursor. The role
-	assigned by this request is the same as assigned by
-	wl_pointer.set_cursor meaning the same surface can be
-	used both as a wl_pointer cursor and a wp_tablet cursor. If the
-	surface already has another role, it raises a protocol error.
-	The surface may be used on multiple tablets and across multiple
-	seats.
+	This request gives the surface the role of a wp_tablet_tool cursor. A
+	surface may only ever be used as cursor surface for one
+	wp_tablet_tool. If the surface already has another role or has
+	previously been used as cursor surface for a different tool, a
+	protocol error is raised.
       </description>
       <arg name="serial" type="uint" summary="serial of the enter event"/>
       <arg name="surface" type="object" interface="wl_surface" allow-null="true"/>
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