Return values in Wayland XML specification
adlo
adloconwy at gmail.com
Fri May 19 14:57:45 UTC 2017
Do any compositors support this protocol?
Regards
adlo
> On 15 May 2017, at 14:27, Quentin Glidic <sardemff7+wayland at sardemff7.net> wrote:
>
> On 5/15/17 3:13 PM, adlo wrote:
>>> On 15 May 2017, at 10:52, Quentin Glidic
>>> <sardemff7+wayland at sardemff7.net> wrote:
>>> If you are writing/porting a window switcher, please consider using
>>> Wayland Wall window-switcher protocol[1]. If you are not, please
>>> don’t, as this protocol is very specific to switchers (it has
>>> "switch_to" and "close" requests). If you need for more than this
>>> protocol offers, or something doesn’t fit your software, just fill
>>> an issue and we will discuss the possible designs.
>> Does your protocol have window thumbnails and damage events for these
>> thumbnails? How does your protocol compare to KDE's
>> org_kde_plasma_windowmanagement?
>
> KDE protocol seems to be designed for window managers, not window
> switchers. My protocol does allow to display thumbnails, but everything
> is on the compositor side, the client just ask it to display them at a
> specific position of its own surface.
>
> I believe KDE’s protocol is too complex for simple compositors to use it easily.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
>
> Quentin “Sardem FF7” Glidic
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