[PATCH weston 1/2] text-backend: Allow client hiding of input panel

[Silvan Jegen]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Joshua Watt <jpewhacker at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2017-07-09 at 21:26 +0200, Silvan Jegen wrote:
>> Hi Joshua
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 08:58:51AM -0500, Joshua Watt wrote:
>> > On Sat, 2017-06-24 at 16:03 -0500, Joshua Watt wrote:
>> > > Previously, the hide_input_panel and show_input_panel messages
>> > > for
>> > > the text
>> > > input protocol were limited to specific cases, such as showing
>> > > the
>> > > panel on
>> > > activation, or making the panel visible after activation. Now,
>> > > clients are
>> > > allowed to toggle the panel visiblity at will as long as they are
>> > > the
>> > > currently
>> > > active client
>> > >
>> > > Signed-off-by: Joshua Watt <JPEWhacker at gmail.com>
>> > > ---
>> > >  compositor/text-backend.c | 22 ++++++++++++----------
>> > >  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>> > >
>> >
>> > Ping?
>>
>> I have tested your two patches locally and can confirm that they
>> compile
>> and run.
>>
>> Letting the user toggle the visibility of the input panel with a
>> click
>> (in the --click-to-show case) seems like a good change to me. I doubt
>> that there are any strong opinions on this though...
>
> Any further updates on this?

We will have to wait for somebody with commit rights to chime in :)

I would be really interested in the next version of the text*protocols
as well but development of them seems to have stalled for now,
unfortunately. There was a new version forthcoming that is pending
some changes. They have been pending for more than a year now though.


Cheers,

Silvan