Wayland protocols

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Thursday 14 August 2014 19:21:54 Pier Luigi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just pushed some initial draft of the Wayland protocols on Github [1]
> 
> I need people with knowledge of KF5 and plasmashell to comment it and
> suggest improvements.
> 
> As we are speaking of protocols, please take a look at xdg-shell.
> It's going to become stable soon [2] please point out your suggestion
> before it's too late.

thanks for the effort. I just started to look at them from top down and will 
send a mail whenever I find something to comment on :-)

panel.xml: I think we need a property for:
* auto-hide
* always visible
* windows can cover
* window go below

For the auto-hide panel we also need a trigger mechanism: the panel needs to 
know when the screen edge is approached. On X11 we do that using a small 
protocol described in https://community.kde.org/KWin/Screen_Edges

Overall on the panel I'm unsure whether it's moving too much detail to the 
compositor and whether some of it would be better kept client side. I'd like 
Marco's opinion on that, though. What I don't like in general is having to 
duplicate the logic in plasma-shell (X11) and in KWin (Wayland).

Cheers
Martin
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