Re: Protocol for window previews/thumbnails

On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 13:49:15 +0100 adlo wrote: > Any ideas about this? Not really, no. Someone has to be the first, solve his own problems, and then see if others can leverage the same solution. It is much harder trying to design something generic when you don't have any

Re: Protocol for window previews/thumbnails

Any ideas about this? > On 7 Jun 2016, at 16:04, adlo wrote: > > There are many other protocols that may require handles to windows. It may > make sense for them to all use the same handle protocol. Of course, all of > these different protocols would require different

Re: Protocol for window previews/thumbnails

There are many other protocols that may require handles to windows. It may make sense for them to all use the same handle protocol. Of course, all of these different protocols would require different levels and types of privileges. For example, a window switcher application would also need a

Re: Protocol for window previews/thumbnails

On Tue, 31 May 2016 14:49:38 +0100 adlo wrote: > > On 20 May 2016, at 08:50, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > > > You would design a new protocol extension private to Weston, with which > > you deliver to your client the handles for top-level windows as they

Re: Protocol for window previews/thumbnails

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 02:49:38PM +0100, adlo wrote: > > > On 20 May 2016, at 08:50, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > > > You would design a new protocol extension private to Weston, with which > > you deliver to your client the handles for top-level windows as they > > come and

Re: Protocol for window previews/thumbnails

> On 20 May 2016, at 08:50, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > You would design a new protocol extension private to Weston, with which > you deliver to your client the handles for top-level windows as they > come and go. > This should probably be a separate protocol from the

Re: Protocol for window previews/thumbnails

On Thu, 26 May 2016 13:52:58 +0100 adlo wrote: > > On 24 May 2016, at 16:06, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > > > The "private to weston" also means it should be a privileged interface: > > arbitrary clients must not be able to use it, as it's none of their >

Re: Protocol for window previews/thumbnails

> On 11 May 2016, at 09:07, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > If some sort of protocol would be needed, then you have to figure out > how to not make it a gaping security breach > What about Wayland Security Modules (libwsm)? In what ways does this fail to address the security

Re: Protocol for window previews/thumbnails

Hello Olivier, You should keep an eye on libweston :) Best regards Le 20/05/2016 10:33, Olivier Fourdan a écrit : > Hi, > > On 12 May 2016 at 00:35, ade low wrote: >> [...] >> It is important that it is a standard, cross-compositor protocol. For >> example, if I am using

Re: Protocol for window previews/thumbnails

> On 24 May 2016, at 16:06, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > The "private to weston" also means it should be a privileged interface: > arbitrary clients must not be able to use it, as it's none of their > concern and could be a security concern. > What about Wayland Security

Re: Protocol for window previews/thumbnails

On Tue, 24 May 2016 14:53:25 +0100 adlo wrote: > > On 20 May 2016, at 08:50, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > > > You would design a new protocol extension private to Weston, with which > > you deliver to your client the handles for top-level windows as they

Re: Protocol for window previews/thumbnails

> On 20 May 2016, at 09:33, Olivier Fourdan wrote: > > FWIW, if xfce were to support Wayland some day, we'd probably built it > on top of an existing compositor manager (mutter is probably the best > bet for a gtk+ based environment) and just like with GNOME shell, > window

Re: Protocol for window previews/thumbnails

Hi, On 12 May 2016 at 00:35, ade low wrote: > [...] > It is important that it is a standard, cross-compositor protocol. For > example, if I am using my app on "xfwm-wayland" and then I decide that I > want to switch to KWin, my app should continue to work. As a side note,

Re: Protocol for window previews/thumbnails

On Thu, 19 May 2016 18:10:19 +0100 adlo wrote: > > On 12 May 2016, at 08:57, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > > > On Wed, 11 May 2016 23:35:01 +0100 > > ade low wrote: > >> My use case is third-party window switcher applications, such

Re: Protocol for window previews/thumbnails

> On 12 May 2016, at 08:57, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > On Wed, 11 May 2016 23:35:01 +0100 > ade low wrote: >> My use case is third-party window switcher applications, such as >> xfdashboard or my program, xfce4-lightdash-plugin: >>

Re: Protocol for window previews/thumbnails

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 3:57 AM Pekka Paalanen wrote: > On Wed, 11 May 2016 23:35:01 +0100 > ade low wrote: > > > Thank you for the feedback, that was very helpful. > > > > On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Pekka Paalanen > wrote: >

Re: Protocol for window previews/thumbnails

On Wed, 11 May 2016 23:35:01 +0100 ade low wrote: > Thank you for the feedback, that was very helpful. > > On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > > > > > You should explain the use case behind the idea. Then it would be > > possible

Re: Protocol for window previews/thumbnails

Thanks for your feedback too. On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Derek Foreman wrote: > > > But I'm of the opinion that this doesn't need to be a "wayland" problem > at all - but I'm not saying there can't be a standard way to do this. > > It just doesn't need to be solved

Re: Protocol for window previews/thumbnails

Thank you for the feedback, that was very helpful. On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > > You should explain the use case behind the idea. Then it would be > possible to assess whether such protocol would even be appropriate for > it. > My use case is

Re: Protocol for window previews/thumbnails

On 11/05/16 03:07 AM, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > On Tue, 10 May 2016 21:30:53 +0100 > ade low wrote: > >> I think that it would be a good idea to have a standard, cross-compositor >> protocol for getting previews/thumbnails of windows, similar to XComposite. > > Hi, > > I

Re: Protocol for window previews/thumbnails

On Tue, 10 May 2016 21:30:53 +0100 ade low wrote: > I think that it would be a good idea to have a standard, cross-compositor > protocol for getting previews/thumbnails of windows, similar to XComposite. Hi, I strongly disagree. A huge part of Wayland's reason to exist is

Protocol for window previews/thumbnails

I think that it would be a good idea to have a standard, cross-compositor protocol for getting previews/thumbnails of windows, similar to XComposite. This protocol should be as fast as possible and use as little system resources as possible. It should probably provide a handle to the native