Re-purposing KWaylandServer

Nicolas Fella nicolas.fella at gmx.de
Thu Apr 29 14:21:42 BST 2021


Hi,

I noticed that the current split makes it very hard to perform git
bisect on kwin given its close relation to kwayland-server. Therefore
big +1 from me to incorporating kwaylandserver into the kwin repo.

Cheers

Nico

On 4/29/21 3:14 PM, Vlad Zahorodnii wrote:
> On 4/28/21 4:27 PM, Aleix Pol wrote:
>> +1 for unifying them and refactoring all within a product. It must
>> stay properly separate but it would allow us to organise the
>
> If kwaylandserver is integrated with the rest of kwin, it will be
> possible to simplify some protocols as wayland bits will be able to
> talk directly to the backend or the renderer instead of relying on
> callbacks, or taking impl objects.
>
> It will be also nice to unify client buffers for wayland clients and
> internal clients.
>
> I would personally prefer full integration of kwaylandserver in libkwin.
>
> Cheers,
> Vlad
>
>> components in ways that make sense beyond the frameworks splitting
>> much like you are finding right now.
>>
>> Aleix
>>
>


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