Re: [RFC PATCH wayland-protocols] Introduce logical output protocol for Xwayland

2017-07-03 Thread Olivier Fourdan
Hi Pekka, > [...] > Maybe more along the lines of xdg_output rather than wp_output. Is > there something else desktops would need about outputs? Identification > (machine-wide unique connector name, output number?) has come up > before, in both human-readable description and persistent > machine-

Re: [RFC PATCH wayland-protocols] Introduce logical output protocol for Xwayland

2017-07-03 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Mon, 3 Jul 2017 04:42:52 -0400 (EDT) Olivier Fourdan wrote: > So, 3 possibilities so far: > > 1. Add the logical output in wl_output >Looked like a good idea initially, not so much on further > consideration. pro: It's just an additional event to a existing > Wayland core protocol cons:

Re: [RFC PATCH wayland-protocols] Introduce logical output protocol for Xwayland

2017-07-03 Thread Olivier Fourdan
Hi Pekka, > please consider that it is impossible to have a stabilization period > for changes to the wl_output interface. What ever you add will be set > in stone immediately, before a considerable user base has had a chance > to try it. There will be no going back once it's there, AFAICT no way

Re: [RFC PATCH wayland-protocols] Introduce logical output protocol for Xwayland

2017-06-30 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 04:38:07 -0400 (EDT) Olivier Fourdan wrote: > Hi Jonas, > > > On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 04:44:34PM +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote: > > > This introduces a new protocol for the compositor to describe outputs > > > size in a logical way for Xwayland. > > Adding it to wl_output m

Re: [RFC PATCH wayland-protocols] Introduce logical output protocol for Xwayland

2017-06-30 Thread Olivier Fourdan
Hi Jonas, > On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 04:44:34PM +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote: > > This introduces a new protocol for the compositor to describe outputs > > size in a logical way for Xwayland. > > > > This is needed for X11 applications that would want to configure an X11 > > window based on the si

Re: [RFC PATCH wayland-protocols] Introduce logical output protocol for Xwayland

2017-06-29 Thread Jonas Ã…dahl
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 04:44:34PM +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote: > This introduces a new protocol for the compositor to describe outputs > size in a logical way for Xwayland. > > This is needed for X11 applications that would want to configure an X11 > window based on the size of the output, witho

[RFC PATCH wayland-protocols] Introduce logical output protocol for Xwayland

2017-06-29 Thread Olivier Fourdan
This introduces a new protocol for the compositor to describe outputs size in a logical way for Xwayland. This is needed for X11 applications that would want to configure an X11 window based on the size of the output, without knowing the output scale factor applied by the compositor to the corresp