Wayland protocols

Martin Gräßlin mgraesslin at kde.org
Tue Aug 19 09:05:58 UTC 2014


On Tuesday 19 August 2014 10:59:09 Pier Luigi Fiorini wrote:
> 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.

I'd suggest we go for reverse domain name: org.kde.plasma or if the dots are 
problematic: org_kde_plasma

Cheers
Martin
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