Wayland protocols

Pier Luigi Fiorini pierluigi.fiorini at gmail.com
Tue Aug 19 11:06:59 UTC 2014


On Tuesday 19 August 2014 11:05:58 Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> 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

Done it is now org_kde_plasma instead of kf5


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