On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Bill Spitzak <spit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/25/2014 01:57 PM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > > https://github.com/magcius/weston/commit/c1e5a846f4f57400bca1262111f979 >> 3e451c5b49 >> > > That patch has nothing to do with what is needed. > > You don't need a "modal window type". This is trivial for a client to do > by just pretending that whatever keystrokes it gets go to the "modal" > window even if the compositor sends them to a different window. > > What is needed is a non-flickering and atomic method of creating that > modal window atop the main one and keeping it there. That requires a > parent, not a "modal" flag. (well actually it does not require a parent if > instead there was a way to atomically map and rearrange a set of surfaces, > but I think the parent will be much easier and matches what programmers are > familiar with). > You mean like the existing set_parent request that has been there since xdg-shell has landed? http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/tree/protocol/xdg-shell.xml#n140 -- Jasper
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