[RFC,wayland-protocols] Add alpha-compositing protocol

[Alexandros Frantzis]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 04:02:24PM +0200, Gary Bisson wrote:
> Hi Alexandros, All,
> 
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 05:24:58PM +0300, Alexandros Frantzis wrote:
> > This protocol specifies a set of interfaces used to control the alpha
> > compositing and blending of surface contents.
> > 
> > It's based on the Chromium Wayland protocol of the same name ([1]),
> > with a few changes made to the blending_equation enumeration.
> > 
> > A proof-of-concept implementation for Weston can be found at:
> > 
> > https://git.collabora.com/cgit/user/alf/weston.git/log/?h=alpha-compositing-v1
> > 
> > [1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/third_party/wayland-protocols/unstable/alpha-compositing/alpha-compositing-unstable-v1.xml
> 
> Was there any feedback on this RFC? On top of Chromium, it seems that
> NXP is now also using it for its i.MX processors [2]. So it would
> definitely be great to have this protocol upstream.
> 
> Note that NXP apparently modified this version of the patch a bit.
> 
> Regards,
> Gary
> 
> [2] https://source.codeaurora.org/external/imx/wayland-protocols-imx/commit/?id=799164a4

Hi Gary,

thanks for bringing the i.MX version to my/our attention.

I haven't received any feedback about this proposal so far, but I am
happy to revive the upstreaming effort as soon as I do. To this end, I
have also added Haihua Hu (from NXP) to the CC list for this thread.

Thanks,
Alexandros