[PATCH weston v3] libweston-desktop: add signal for title/app-id changes

Quentin Glidic sardemff7+wayland at sardemff7.net
Fri Dec 8 14:19:35 UTC 2017


On 12/8/17 3:13 PM, Matt Hoosier wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 4:26 AM, Quentin Glidic
> <sardemff7+wayland at sardemff7.net> wrote:
>> On 12/8/17 11:22 AM, Quentin Glidic wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Matt Hoosier <matt.hoosier at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> As discussed on
>>>
>>> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2017-August/034720.html,
>>> it's useful for the shell implementation to know when these change,
>>> for example to relay the information on to taskbars or similar.
>>>
>>> To avoid ABI changes or the need to make the weston_desktop_surface
>>> definition public, new functions are introduced for attaching
>>> listeners to these signals.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Matt Hoosier <matt.hoosier at gmail.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Quentin Glidic <sardemff7+git at sardemff7.net>
>>> Signed-off-by: Quentin Glidic <sardemff7+git at sardemff7.net>
>>> ---
>>
>>
>> (Err, wanted to drop the Sob send-email added via command line and I just
>> closed vim…)
>>
>> I made this v3 to rename the signal to "metadata" instead of "title", but
>> also to tweak a tiny bit the signal sending. I wanted the shell not to have
>> to strdup() these, so now, it can listen to the signal, and compare old and
>> new values (and even use both) without extra cost.
>> Do you ack that change?
>>
>> Still not sure I prefer a signal to just adding to the callbacks struct, but
>> we can always break API/ABI again later if we need to. :-)
> 
> I like the change, and prefer the name "metadata" for the signal
> anyway. The v3 changes are:
> 
> Acked-by: Matt Hoosier <matt.hoosier at gmail.com>
> 
> (Not sure whether you actually want to put it into the commit message,
> since I'm the original author. But I approve.)
> 
> Thanks for the review.
> 

It was just a matter of making sure you understand the change. :-)

And finally, pushed !
037f056ec..555c548c7  master -> master

Thanks,

-- 

Quentin “Sardem FF7” Glidic


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