can subsurface and shell surface be used together to manage surfaces

[Matt Hoosier]

If you’re asking whether it’s possible to migrate a given wl_surface from
being a subsurface (initially) to later being a shell surface, this isn’t
allowed. This has to do with the immutability of a surface’s so-called
“role.” (Surfaces are only ever allowed to be registered with one given
role. )

-Matt

On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 5:43 AM zou lan <nancy.lan.zou at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi pekka & all
>
> I want to use subsurface to manage the initial position of each surface on
> screen, then I want to create shell surface for each wl surface to manage
> them seperately, such as response touch event, ivi-shell can modify the
> z-order of each surface and move each ivi surface to different displays.
>
> Is it ok to use subsurface like this? If the shell surfaces' z-order have
> been modified by desktop shell or ivi-shell,  will the z-order of
> subsurfaces be modified too?
>
> thank you!
>
> Best Regards
> Nancy
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