On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Pekka Paalanen <ppaala...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 10:39:05 -0500 > Lyude <cp...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2015-12-12 at 11:29 -0800, Bill Spitzak wrote: > > > I don't think you need the word "primary" in there. It can be called > the > > > selection. The other thing this is confused with is called the > "clipboard". > > > > > > Glad to see you reusing the dnd protocol. X selection and > middle-button paste > > > is really a form of DnD, but with the advantage that the user can > rearrage and > > > open and close windows between when they start and finish the drag. > > Alright I'm a bit confused here since I'm getting conflicting opinions > on this. > > Should we be reusing the dnd protocol or not? Giulio seems to think we > shouldn't > > be reusing the data offer objects here, but I would have thought that > makes the > > most sense here seeing as the functionality of a > wp_primary_(offer|source) would > > be pretty much identical to the wl_data_(offer|source) objects. > > Giulio is right. > > You must not break the versioning (hierarchy) of protocol objects. > See: > http://wayland.freedesktop.org/docs/html/ch04.html#sect-Protocol-Versioning > > Having two different global interfaces that (or their child > interfaces, i.e. the interfaces of objects that can be created from > these) can create objects with the same interface will not allow > that interface to be extended, because the interface version becomes > ambiguous. > > Examples of interfaces that are already impossible to extend are > wl_buffer and wl_callback. For wl_buffer there is a good reason to > break the rule and take the hit of being stuck at version 1 > forever, but I think it was more of an accident than intentional > design originally. > He is not creating the DnD objects with the new api, just reusing them.
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