Batching text input protocol changes

[Jonas Ådahl]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 10:12:11AM +0200, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 19:58:43 +0100
> Dorota Czaplejewicz <dorota.czaplejewicz at puri.sm> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > over the past month, the zwp_text_input_v3 protocol has moved to real
> > devices and had seen unprecedented usage. Together with that, it also
> > got a reality check, from which it didn't come unscathed. There are
> > some issues identified:
> > 
> > - a hint that there's no need for an on-screen keyboard
> > - allow deleting text even when surrounding text is unknown
> > - making it harder for compositors to send uninformed updates
> > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/merge_requests/16
> > - possibly graceful switching within text inputs
> > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/2437
> > - sending control events (submit, next field, undo) to gain
> > independence from a virtual keyboard protocol
> > 
> > I might have left something out.
> > 
> > Since they are all relatively unrelated, they can thankfully be
> > discussed separately. But merging them in separately would create
> > needlessly many combinations of possible supported versions.
> > 
> > A new integration branch on gitlab would keep related merge requests
> > on the wayland-protocols repo, and it could be merged as one large
> > update once it's sufficiently hardened. Or is there another way to do
> > this?
> 
> Hi Dorota,
> 
> sounds like you have a good reason to have an upstream branch like
> that, so that the work in progress won't stop the master branch from
> releasing. I would be fine with that.
> 
> Another way could be to start a new major version XML file, and exclude
> it from install by default. No-one could use it until you make it
> installable, so there would be no need to maintain implementations of
> the intermediate steps.

Note that some users of wayland-protocols don't use the installed
version, but manage wayland-protocols as a git submodule, thus just not
installing would not be good enough for that.

Also, if these additions are going to introduce a version 2 of the
text-input unstable v3, it'd be awkward to keep the changes in a dummy
file until merged back into the actual one.

Thus, I think using a branch until the new version is settled is the
best option here. You could still use merge requests, just that you
target a 'wip/text-input-v3.2' branch we create instead of the master
branch.


Jonas

> 
> Mind the wayland-protocols governance rules.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> pq



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