[PATCH wayland-protocols] unstable: add xcursor-configuration

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 15:24:14 +0100
Jonas Ådahl <jadahl at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 02:10:30PM +0000, Simon Ser wrote:
> > On Monday, December 10, 2018 2:51 PM, Jonas Ådahl <jadahl at gmail.com> wrote:  
> > > There is an alternative more generic solution to this problem, and all
> > > other related to what XSettings did in the past. If we'd end up
> > > introducing a protocol like this, we might end up with many tiny
> > > protocols for things previously covered by XSettings. Cursor things,
> > > font things, and what not. Adding a new protocol for each these things
> > > would be silly.
> > >
> > > The generic alternative is designed with sandboxing in mind (but
> > > of course doesn't require it in any way), and is part of
> > > xdg-desktop-portal, the same place where the compositor agnostic
> > > screen casting API lives (org.freedesktop.portal.ScreenCast, implemented
> > > at least by GNOME and KDE).

Hi,

I can certainly see the concern about proliferating lots of small
extensions to configure bits and pieces, and I also appreciate
consideration to sandboxing.

> > * Multi-seat support would be kind of alien.  
> 
> Can at least be investigated how multi seat should be achieved before
> being dismissed as being alien like. I can open issues for that if you'd
> there is interest.

That sounds like something to be looked into, but the proposal does tie
to wl_seat. OTOH, wl_seat does have an event for "name" which is
defined to be unique, so that should be easy to use in any other
framework for settings.

Therefore I do not have an opinion of preference to offer at this time.


Thanks,
pq

> > >
> > > [0] https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/blob/master/data/org.freedesktop.portal.Settings.xml  

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