[PATCH wayland-protcols v2] unstable: add xdg-toplevel-decoration protocol

Simon Ser contact at emersion.fr
Thu Mar 15 15:43:00 UTC 2018


On March 15, 2018 4:15 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2 March 2018 at 15:33, Simon Ser <contact at emersion.fr> wrote:
> > This adds a new protocol to negotiate server- and client-side rendering of
> > window decorations for xdg-toplevels. This allows compositors that want
> > to draw decorations themselves to send their preference to clients, and
> > clients that prefer server-side decorations to request them.
> >
> > This is inspired by a protocol from KDE [1] which has been implemented in
> > KDE and Sway and was submitted for consideration in 2017 [2]. This patch
> > provides an updated protocol with those concerns taken into account.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Ser <contact at emersion.fr>
> > Reviewed-by: Drew DeVault <sir at cmpwn.com>
> > Reviewed-by: David Edmundson <david at davidedmundson.co.uk>
> > Reviewed-by: Alan Griffiths <alan.griffiths at canonical.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Tony Crisci <tony at dubstepdish.com>
> >
> More of a fly-by comment.
> 
> Having a quick look does not list any of these R-B tags making it to the list.
> Was it done in private, or I failed at searching?

Yeah, it was done prior to submission to wayland-devel. See the commentary below
the commit message:

> This was iterated on privately between representatives of Sway and wlroots
> (Simon Ser, Drew DeVault and Tony Crisci), KDE and Qt (David Edmundson), and
> Mir (Alan Griffiths).

> If the former - it's very concerning practise.
>
> -Emil



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