Wayland plasnning meeting notes

[Pier Luigi]

2014-07-21 15:51 GMT+02:00 Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org>:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> This is hopefully a synopsis of what has been said in the wayland planning
>> meeting.
>>
>> Plasmashell relies heavily on KScreen that may pose a problem: it will
>> need
>> either to have KScreen supporting Wayland internally or to be ported again
>> back to QScreen, needing QScreen to be fixed on both X11 and Wayland.
>>
>> Shadows should still have a protocol similar to now, to be painted by kwin
>> and
>> not by the window. In the same way output only windows should have a
>> protocol
>> for that instead of playing with masks, the general direction is to have
>> protocols shell->kwin instead of windows working around problems.
>>
>> plfiorini says he may have a draft of the palsmashell->kwin protocol spec
>> open
>> for comment around middle of August.
>
>
> Regarding KScreen, it really should be ported, at the moment QScreen doesn't
> provide the information we need. I introduced one of the big missings for
> 5.4, which was screenRemoved, but we'll still need at least a primaryChanged
> signal.
>
> Aleix

This task doesn't require KWin basics to be ready, could be done
before so we have some work already done.

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