We could indeed write a tiny Wayland compositor that composited a single
wl_surface as a GTK+ widget, and I wouldn't feel too bad about it. We could
even do it while under X11, and it might be an interesting proof of
concept. I could do a PoC if you guys want.
On Jan 25, 2015 8:05 AM, "Cosimo Cecchi" <cosi...@gnome.org> wrote:

> Fair enough, those are good points.
> To rephrase my last message I am not well-versed in the details of
> subsurfaces and how they would help in this case, so I will appreciate help
> to evolve my API proposal in that direction :-)
>
> Cosimo
>
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <eba...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> hi;
>>
>> On 25 January 2015 at 13:31, Philip Withnall <phi...@tecnocode.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >> That's why my proposal doesn't enforce this specific design; I'm
>> >> definitely open to think more about how a multi-process design looks
>> >> like, but I wouldn't want to block until that is figured out.
>> >
>> > To me, the security and rendering architecture of this seems pretty core
>> > in the design, so I _would_ block on figuring it out. It doesn’t feel
>> > like the kind of thing which can easily be bolted on or fixed
>> > afterwards.
>>
>> I tend to agree; we need to start designing our API with sandboxing
>> and security context separation from the start, these days, otherwise
>> we'll have nothing but grief (in the form of API changes or, worse,
>> complete rewrites) down the line.
>>
>> ciao,
>>  Emmanuele.
>>
>> --
>> https://www.bassi.io
>> [@] ebassi [@gmail.com]
>>
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