How to implement OSD overlay in Wayland/Weston

[Guillermo Rodriguez]

Hi,


El mar., 19 nov. 2019 a las 12:38, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
(<dos at dosowisko.net>) escribió:
>
> On 11/19/19, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > yes. I'm not aware of any Wayland extension that would allow clients to
> > dictate always-on-top behaviour on the desktop. It has an obvious
> > attack vector (malicious or misbehaving app setting always-on-top
> > without user's consent) and a simple corner case (how do you stack
> > multiple always-on-top windows).
> >
> > OSD as a concept seems like a desktop component, not a normal app.
> > Hence I would expect such a client to use a domain-specific or custom
> > protocol extension to set always-on-top. If your use case is not a
> > generic desktop but some special environment, then a domain-specific
> > protocol extension would be a way to go. For generic desktop
> > environments you'd integrate with the particular DE specifically, e.g.
> > a gnome-shell plugin or something.
> >
> > That is, if the OSD really is an independent separate program and not a
> > part of some fullscreen application.
>
> Sounds like something layer-shell protocol solves portably already.

That sounds interesting. Is that supported by Weston?

Guillermo