how to implement animation in wayland since window move request is not supported?

[Barry Song]

Hi Simon,

Simon Ser <contact at emersion.fr> 于2019年5月6日周一 上午9:54写道：
>
> Hi,
>
> On Monday, May 6, 2019 12:17 AM, Barry Song <21cnbao at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > It seems wayland doesn't support the move() and setGeometry() from
> > clients. No any message is sent from Qt to weston for qWidget.move()
> > or qDialog.move(). So weston has no any idea that clients are
> > requesting to move a window.
> > Under this condition, how could people implement animation of a window?
> >
> > Right now, a software uses a timer to move window, in the callback of
> > the timer, the window is moved a little and the timer is fired again.
> > So the window can move and move, which is generating an animation.
> > This works well in non-wayland platforms. But the move() codes seems
> > to have no any impact under wayland.
> >
> > So do we have some alternative way to implement the animation of a window?
>
> This has been intentionally left out.
>
> Could you explain exactly what is your use-case? What kind of
> application are you working on, what does this dialog contain, what you
> want to do?

click a button, a window will move out from the top to its position.

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click a button, a window will move out from the right to its position.

the windows are not shown on screen directly, it is moving out.

>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Simon Ser
> https://emersion.fr

-barry