Proposal: use of xdg-shell popups outside of xdg-shell

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 09:13:48 -0400
Drew DeVault <ddevault at vistarmedia.com> wrote:

> >just checking, how did you design your own protocol extension to take
> >advantage of xdg_popup? I mean, mechanically, what does the protocol
> >request sequence look like when you create an xdp_popup for your own
> >purpose?
> >
> >I'm asking because there is a pretty subtle and horrible catch if it's
> >done "wrong". Having your own protocol extension include a request that
> >creates a protocol object of type xdg_popup is the wrong way. There are
> >other ways to do it without accidentally freezing the xdp_popup
> >interface for all eternity.  
> 
> Yeah, thankfully this is not how we do it. We do something like this:
> 
> 1. xdg_surface = xdg_shell.get_xdg_surface(surface=wl_surface)
> 2. xdg_positioner = xdg_shell.get_positioner()
> 3. xdg_popup = surface.get_popup(parent=NULL, positioner=xdg_positioner)
> 4. layer_surface.assign_popup(popup=xdg_popup)
> 
> <request name="assign_popup">
>   <description summary="assign this layer_surface as an xdg_popup parent">
>     This assigns an xdg_popup's parent to this layer_surface.  This popup
>     should have been created via xdg_surface::get_popup with the parent set
>     to NULL, and this request must be invoked before committing the popup's
>     initial state.
> 
>     See the documentation of xdg_popup for more details about what an
>     xdg_popup is and how it is used.
>   </description>
>   <arg name="popup" type="object" interface="xdg_popup"/>
> </request>

Alright, cool. Carry on! :-)

So that's how Weston's panel and background could regain their popup
menus as well, good to know.


Thanks,
pq


> Discussion on the specific protocol we're working on is here:
> 
> https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols/pull/7
> 
> --
> Drew DeVault

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