Re: Where should project Weston go?

2014-12-10 Thread Jussi Laako
On 10.12.2014 14:36, Daniel Stone wrote: understandable, but this is not a failure of upstream. If you redesigned your patches to avoid the (IMO massive) design flaws and resubmitted, or communicated with us earlier on so your original design was more suitable, this could've been avoided. Regar

Re: Where should project Weston go?

2014-12-10 Thread Jussi Laako
On 9.12.2014 11:46, Bryce Harrington wrote: Perhaps the situation could be improved via some patches from you? We tried for the multi-seat, but it wasn't so much welcomed. We'll probably just maintain our fork for what we need. ___ wayland-devel ma

Re: Where should project Weston go?

2014-12-09 Thread Jussi Laako
On 9.12.2014 1:26, Bryce Harrington wrote: But I imagine 'minimal' is intended here in more of an engineering sense, and interpret it myself to mean something like: Focuses on principle features not superfluous stuff better handled by other projects; doesn't overengineer algorithms to squeeze a f

Re: [PATCH wayland 2/2] support specifying custom directories for the client and server

2014-11-25 Thread Jussi Laako
On 25.11.2014 15:01, Pekka Paalanen wrote: However, all upstream cases will use XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, which probably is not appropriate for your use case, depending on how you actually start things. That's why I thought providing an alternative could be useful. It still supports XDG_RUNTIME_DIR too

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Support for adjusting socket access rights to allow group of users to connect to the socket.

2014-11-24 Thread Jussi Laako
On 19.11.2014 16:22, Pekka Paalanen wrote: When a session compositor is started, you can already use WAYLAND_SOCKET environment variable to pass an opened connection to it. If your system compositor forks session compositors, no problem. If something else starts your session compositors, you need

Re: [PATCH wayland 2/2] support specifying custom directories for the client and server

2014-11-24 Thread Jussi Laako
On 19.11.2014 12:56, Pekka Paalanen wrote: I have very hard time deciding if we should allow the environment to overwrite the server and client assumptions on where the socket is. It would be easier for me to accept new API functions that operate with absolute paths or existing fds explicitly, bu

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Support for adjusting socket access rights to allow group of users to connect to the socket.

2014-10-22 Thread Jussi Laako
On 20.10.2014 18:13, Daniel Stone wrote: Each to their own; I don't think it's necessarily any more complex than split compositors, since at some point you have to deal with input splitting anyway, and if you want both security (i.e. random users not opening random devices) and performance (i.e.

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Support for adjusting socket access rights to allow group of users to connect to the socket.

2014-10-20 Thread Jussi Laako
On 20.10.2014 17:26, Daniel Stone wrote: Makes sense, although you can already enforce isolation with a single shared compositor ... Only weston can access the DRM compositor socket since it's the only one having group privileges for doing it. So each user has their own contained environment.

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Support for adjusting socket access rights to allow group of users to connect to the socket.

2014-10-20 Thread Jussi Laako
On 17.10.2014 20:00, Jason Ekstrand wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Imran Zaman mailto:imran.za...@gmail.com>> wrote: This is used for nested compositor architectures. Could you please provide a little more explanation than that. What kind of nesting are you doing? We have one s