On 02/10/2012 11:03 AM, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:41:08 -0800
Bill Spitzak wrote:
You are probably right that the round-trip would be bad.
Can it just use the transparency of the current buffer, rather than
other information that needs to be transmitted from the client?
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On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:41:08 -0800
Bill Spitzak wrote:
> You are probably right that the round-trip would be bad.
>
> Can it just use the transparency of the current buffer, rather than
> other information that needs to be transmitted from the client?
That would be better than round-trips, sur
Hi,
On 10 February 2012 00:41, Bill Spitzak wrote:
> You are probably right that the round-trip would be bad.
>
> Can it just use the transparency of the current buffer, rather than other
> information that needs to be transmitted from the client?
>
> Another possibility is that the api is simpli
You are probably right that the round-trip would be bad.
Can it just use the transparency of the current buffer, rather than
other information that needs to be transmitted from the client?
Another possibility is that the api is simplified to *one* rectangle,
and the client says "anything insi
Hi,
Sorry for the drive-by, but ...
On 9 February 2012 21:43, Bill Spitzak wrote:
> I feel that a better solution is for the compositor to send any event in the
> surface rectangle to the client, but the client is allowed to respond with a
> "that is in the transparent area", in which case the co
I feel that a better solution is for the compositor to send any event in
the surface rectangle to the client, but the client is allowed to
respond with a "that is in the transparent area", in which case the
compositor sends it to a lower surface.
The client certainly knows what shape it's surf
This is an unfinished work and I won't have time to deal with it next.
My intention was to come up with a protocol for applications specify the
effective shape of their windows. Say, flower client could send a bunch of
rectangles to the compositor telling about its real shape, so whenever an
input
