Well, it can't be a state enum, because that's from compositor to client. We certainly could make it a small extension as part of gtk_shell, though.
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Jason Ekstrand <ja...@jlekstrand.net> wrote: > > On Sep 25, 2014 3:04 PM, "Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpie...@mecheye.net> > wrote: > > > > > > > > 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/c1e5a846f4f57400bca1262111f9793e451c5b49 > >> > >> > >> 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 > > If parenting isn't sufficient, it would be easy enough to add a mutter > extension for modal windows in the form of another state enum. If it turns > out to be a well-defined thing other compositors want, we can think about > moving it to core. In any case, it should be trivial from a protocol point > of view. > > > > > -- > > Jasper > > > > _______________________________________________ > > wayland-devel mailing list > > wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel > > > -- Jasper
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