[PATCH] protocol: deprecate wl_surface.damage

[Simon Ser]

On Monday, November 5, 2018 11:07 AM, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:
> How about writing what Derek said: that the old damage request may be
> unoptimal rather than deprecated.
>
> I don't like "deprecated" because to me it implies that this request
> will be removed (i.e. can be left unimplemented) some time in the future.

Fair enough, I'll rephrase with words like "should" and "preferred".

It would be nice to really deprecate this request at some point.

> Xwayland is still using exclusively wl_surface.damage, for instance.

Sent a patch to fix this [1].

[1]: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2018-November/057678.html