Keyboard input

2010-12-13 Thread Mike Paquette
of post-retirement. Once I'm up to speed I can probably make more substantial contributions. http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelpaquette Mike Paquette ___ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel

Re: Keyboard input

2010-12-14 Thread Mike Paquette
On Dec 14, 2010, at 2:20 AM, Stefanos A. wrote: > > > 2010/12/14 Mike Paquette > On Dec 13, 2010, at 4:47 PM, Daniel wrote: > > > Any thoughts on keyboard input? > > I recently completed work on a novel window system not too different from > Wayland. We ran

Re: What's wrong with wayland?

2011-04-22 Thread Mike Paquette
may draw using their favorite sets of APIs. On Mac OS X that includes Carbon, the old school Macintosh QuickDraw based code, Cocoa, built on a Postscriptish vector + raster model, and the X protocol via a 'rootless' X server. Mike Paquette http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelpaque

Re: client side decorations

2011-05-05 Thread Mike Paquette
a desktop manager process to let it know when an app is hung, allowing it to alter the appearance of the UI. Unity might, for example, be extended to turn the running app indicator red, or a menu item 'Quit' could change to 'Force Quit.' Mike Paquette ___

Re: client side decorations

2011-05-07 Thread Mike Paquette
an provide the mechanisms to move, hide, show, and resize windows. Decisions as to how to handle unresponsive applications and present UI regarding these applications is best done at a higher level. Mike Paquette ___ wayland-devel mailing list wayla

Re: Wayland Window Management Proposal

2011-05-13 Thread Mike Paquette
tatus of other apps, like the Unity launch bar, to listen for notifications of unresponsive apps, specially badge unresponsive apps if desired, or offer a 'force quit' contextual menu item. Mike Paquette On May 13, 2011, at 4:11 AM, Mak Nazečić-Andrlon wrote: > Indeed. But how ab

Re: Wayland Window Management Proposal

2011-05-13 Thread Mike Paquette
app developers that when they resized a window, they should immediately fix up the content without wandering off to query the odd remote database, but the majority of apps appeared to be ready to redraw content promptly on doing a resize. Mike Paquette On May 13, 2011, at 10:37 AM

Re: I feel configure events and requests are messed up

2011-09-07 Thread Mike Paquette
I just thought I'd chime in with a little background information on Quartz. This is purely informational, to give everyone an idea of how these issues were handled elsewhere. There are lots of possible solutions and tradeoffs. I'm just kibitzing. Kristian is driving. :-) On Sep 7, 2011, at

Re: [PATCH] compositor: implement a stack of surface transformations

2012-01-09 Thread Mike Paquette
On Jan 9, 2012, at 12:43 AM, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > Note, that even 3D projective transformations are just a subset. > Nothing should prevent arbitrary non-linear transformations in the > compositor, if they make any sense. How about projection on a sphere, > like in a planetarium? In case so