[PATCH wayland-protocols v2] Introduce xdg-foreign protocol

[Marco Martin]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 3:47 AM, Jonas Ådahl <jadahl at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 01:42:51PM +0200, Marco Martin wrote:
>> On Wednesday 27 July 2016 15:54:58 Jonas Ĺdahl wrote:
>> > xdg-foreign is a protocol meant to enable setting up inter surface
>> > relationships across clients. Potential use cases are out-of-process
>> > dialogs, such as file dialogs, meant to be used by sandboxed processes
>> > that may not have the access it needs to implement such dialogs.
>>
>> a quick feedback while trying on implementing it in kde side.
>> since we use c++, the file generated by wayland-scanner, won't compile due to
>> the request called "export" which is a reserved keyword in c++11.
>> could the request be renamed to something else, even just a bit more redundant
>> as export_surface which would be safer as compilers are concerned?
>
> Ah. Would make sense with a test case for this in wayland-scanner I'd
> say, so we don't add other things that would make it not compile with a
> c++ compiler.
>
> Anyhow, "export_surface" or maybe even "export_toplevel" (as that is the only
> thing we allow exporting anyway) seems fine to me. The "import" request
> should be renamed in a similar manner as well then.
>

yeah, export_toplevel/import_toplevel sounds good.
if there is a continuous integration somewhere, could be nice just
make it try compiling the file resulting from wayland-scanner with g++
-std=c++14 or something like that

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Marco Martin