Integration of layer-shell in plasma

[Vlad Zahorodnii]

On 8/28/20 12:36 PM, David Edmundson wrote:
> 
>  >* Mimic absolute positioning via relative positioning. It's good as a
> short-term solution, but imho, we need something better
> 
> I'm not quite sure I understand which way you're describing:
> 
> Do you mean having plasma code still do absolute co-ordinates and then 
> have us turn it into relative positions like how Qt does popups?

^^ This one.

> Or having client code do things in relative co-ordinates and locally 
> convert it to absolute and using the existing plasmashell protocol.
> 
>  > The most ideal case is where Qt provides native support for the
> layer-shell protocol out of the box.
> 
> Qt6 will have a new way of doing native functions on platform windows 
> which looks very encouraging.
> 
> Effectively it'll become QWaylandWindow: public QPlatformWindow, public 
> QWaylandSpecificMagicWindowStuff

Q: Has the native functions stuff been landed? and where can we read 
more about it?

Cheers,
Vlad

> Then Qt ships a header file of QPublicWaylandSpecificMagicWindowStuff 
> which will contain all the getters with native code and a bunch of 
> virtuals for setting things and one can downcast the platform window.
> Compared to the old nativeinterface approach it's /amazing/. I think 
> that'll be a good entry point for all this.
> 
> Then at a KDE level we can surface that as agnostic public API that does 
> it's own local thing on X, and uses this Qt-platform-specific API on 
> wayland.
> 
> David
>