On Sunday 17 November 2013 22:27:29 Thiago Macieira wrote: > On segunda-feira, 18 de novembro de 2013 06:37:47, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > That sounds look a good solution to me! > > Make it simpler: all clients MUST be able to draw decorations. That's what > Wayland up until now requires anyway. > > A client MAY ask the compositor to draw decorations. If and only if the > compositor replies that it will, the client is then not required to draw > them. The only compositor likely to even understand this extension is kwin: > it will reply "sure, I'll decorate" for any apps that request it. If > necessary, the request can include a suggestion level on how strongly the > client wants the compositor to do the decoration. > > If the compositor does not reply to the extension, the application MUST > decorate itself (according to whatever rules are prevalent, including no > decorations for a tablet or mobile environment, etc.). > > If the application does not request it, the compositor MUST NOT decorate the > windows -- it must assume the client is doing it properly. I'm guessing > that most toolkits will not request it and will not provide a way for > applications to do it either. Such a protocol would make runtime switching impossible, wouldn't it?
That's a really important use case for us to turn a tablet into a desktop and vice versa. Cheers Martin
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