On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 06:26:40PM +0800, Po Lu wrote: > Jonas Ådahl <jad...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Perhaps open a merge request adding it to > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/-/blob/master/wm-spec/wm-spec.xml, > > but you should probably familiarize with what happened the last time it > > was attempted, which was in 2011: > > > > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/wm-spec-list/2011-October/msg00006.html > > AFAICT from that discussion, the effort just fizzled out. The main/only > problem with the approach you outlined is that I don't have a > gitlab.freedesktop.org account, and the lawyers at my organization are > not keen to let me get one. > > If I were to add the clarifications to the monotonic clock handling and > send you a patch to wm-spec.xml, could you please open a merge request > on my behalf?
I don't really have the time and motivation to do the work required move the frame timings spec anywhere more formal. I can try to help trying to interpret the mutter and gtk implementation if you have any questions anyhow. > > > But you can just as well go and implement it anyway, if you need this > > kind of frame synchronization on X11; it's unrealistic that adding it to > > wm-spec.xml would mean any changes were to be made to it anyway. > > It'd really be easier for me to work on this if it were in the wm-spec. > That way, I could point and say "that's a standard!", instead of "that's > floating somewhere in a bowl of fish soup!" I understand that, but at least you can point at the fact that it has been implemented and used in GNOME for more or less a decade already. Jonas > > Thanks.