EWMH 1.6 with frame synchronization?

[Jonas Ådahl]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 06:26:40PM +0800, Po Lu wrote:
> Jonas Ådahl <jadahl at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Perhaps open a merge request adding it to
> > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/-/blob/master/wm-spec/wm-spec.xml,
> > but you should probably familiarize with what happened the last time it
> > was attempted, which was in 2011:
> >
> > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2011-October/msg00006.html
> 
> AFAICT from that discussion, the effort just fizzled out.  The main/only
> problem with the approach you outlined is that I don't have a
> gitlab.freedesktop.org account, and the lawyers at my organization are
> not keen to let me get one.
> 
> If I were to add the clarifications to the monotonic clock handling and
> send you a patch to wm-spec.xml, could you please open a merge request
> on my behalf?

I don't really have the time and motivation to do the work required move
the frame timings spec anywhere more formal. I can try to help trying to
interpret the mutter and gtk implementation if you have any questions
anyhow.

> 
> > But you can just as well go and implement it anyway, if you need this
> > kind of frame synchronization on X11; it's unrealistic that adding it to
> > wm-spec.xml would mean any changes were to be made to it anyway.
> 
> It'd really be easier for me to work on this if it were in the wm-spec.
> That way, I could point and say "that's a standard!", instead of "that's
> floating somewhere in a bowl of fish soup!"

I understand that, but at least you can point at the fact that it has
been implemented and used in GNOME for more or less a decade already.


Jonas

> 
> Thanks.