[PATCH] xdg-shell: add enums for tiled window state to toplevel configure

[Mike Blumenkrantz]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:15 AM Simon McVittie <smcv at collabora.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 at 09:52:02 -0400, Mike Blumenkrantz wrote:
> > this adds implementation from a related discussion long ago in which
> > it was decided that it would be useful for clients to know if/where their
> > windows were tiled so that various behaviors and visuals could be
> modified
> > to improve UX
> >
> > a window which is e.g., tiled on the right side of the screen would set
> the
> > right|top|bottom tiled states in configure
>
> Are these for the same purpose as the tiled states in the (currently
> private)
> protocol between GTK+ and Mutter/GNOME Shell?
>
> This has separate per-edge flags for:
>
> - Tiling: each edge is tiled (aligned to some other object) or not, so
>   that windows and client-side decorations can make UI choices like
>   "draw shadows on each edge that is not tiled" or "draw square corners
>   at each corner involving a tiled edge, and rounded corners where
>   neither edge is tiled"
>
> - Resizability: each edge is resizable or not, so that client-side
>   decorations can show or not show resize handles as appropriate (in
>   GNOME Shell you can tile two windows and then drag their shared
>   border to adjust the split, and I suspect that the Wayland equivalents
>   of X11 tiling window managers would want this too)
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=751857
>
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/blob/master/src/wayland/protocol/gtk-shell.xml
>
> Regards,
>     smcv
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They could be used for those purposes, yes.
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