Future of xdg-shell v5 support in weston

[Daniel Stone]

Hi,

On 19 January 2018 at 16:21, Derek Foreman <derekf at osg.samsung.com> wrote:
> It's my opinion that supporting xdg-shell final is rather important for the
> wayland reference compositor.
>
> So, I think we need to consider removing xdg-shell v5 from weston and its
> included clients as soon as is reasonable.
>
> It should probably be considered deprecated since the introduction of
> xdg-shell v6 into wayland-protocols in late 2015.  I'm sure there are still
> users out there, but it has always been labeled "unstable" with a firm
> promise that it would disappear eventually.
>
> Do we have any opinions on when we can strip this out?  I think keeping it
> for the next release and removing it immediately after is pragmatic (with a
> firm warning in the release notes that this is coming).

I agree with all of the above. I'd be inclined to junk it as soon as
we get to merge a patchset to support stable xdg-shell; I don't have
any massive objections to scrapping v5 support before that, as
everyone should've moved on, but it might penalise people using old
clients in their kiosks/STBs/cars/whatever for no benefit.

> Also, I don't think toytoolkit clients failing to connect to a compositor
> that only has v5 support is a major concern either.

No, toytoolkit is never a reason.

Cheers,
Daniel