Wayland protocols

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Wednesday 20 August 2014 16:41:23 Ivan Čukić wrote:
> > Personally I don't understand why kamd needs to know the internal Id of a
> > window. Is this really needed or could it solved differently (e.g. using
> > additional interface/requests which kwin then forwards to kamd)? If not
> > it's about time that we express the need for a global id in the
> > xdg_shell.
> WIds are mostly for tracking the focussed one. It can go through kwin, I
> don't mind, as long as kamd gets document events for specific windows - and
> get window events through kwindowsystem.
> 
> Note that it is not only about events going from a window to kamd, but also
> in the other way. (kamd/slc needs/will need/... to be able to call a method
> back in the window sometimes, and get the value - this can go through kwin
> as well, but that seems like an unnecessary complication)
> 
> What do you think about creating a share-like-connect bof at akademy? We
> could discuss this in more details there - slc is the most complex part of
> the story.

Yes, let's do a BOF. I still have huge problems understanding why anyone would 
like to know internals of the windowing system. If I properly understand the 
usecase it's easier to come up with an appropriate solution.

Cheers
Martin
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