On showing windows where the users want them, on wayland

[David Edmundson]

It depends on whether someone needs to recreate xeyes!

>- make Qt report the screen where the current cursor is the primary
one,

QScreen constantly changing would make plasma panels move, we don't want to
expose cursor pos that way.

>- include in the KWayland::Client::PlasmaShell a way to report the
screen (e.g. the edid or another identifier) with the current cursor.

We would probably use a wl_output ID as an arg.

Being in PlasmaShell is also potentially problematic.

You need this information before we show.
We don't have a wl_surface after the first hide() before the second show(),
which means we can't have a plasmashell.

It might be doable still, but that order needs thinking about before making
protocol mods.

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>From a "pure wayland" POV, this approach is backwards - the client should
be specifying the position semantically then kwin would do its thing.
We have the client doing things in absolute positions to have a nice client
migration path from X. I hope to be changing that for KF6.

David
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