Wayland protocols

[Pier Luigi Fiorini]

On Friday 15 August 2014 10:42:28 Marco Martin wrote:
> On Friday 15 August 2014, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > another general note: I'm not sure about exposing "kf5" in the interface
> > names. It has nothing to do with frameworks and I don't expect the
> > interface name to change once we introduce kf6.
> > 
> > I'm unsure what a good name could be, though. Maybe plasma, maybe kwin?
> 
> why does it need a namespace? is it expected to support similar protocols of
> other shells in the future?

Interfaces are global meaning that a client will see them from the registry 
hence it's better if we don't advertise interfaces that may collide with 
others.

The shell client could be used with a compositor with different interfaces and 
the same name.