On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Daniel Stone <dan...@fooishbar.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 3 April 2013 18:01, Yichao Yu <yyc1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes I am talking about menu not notification (sorry the name is status
> > notifier[1] instead of status notification), which is the system tray
> > protocol.
>
> Ah OK, I see.  In this case though, there's still a user input event
> which triggers it, so I don't see how providing the serial has much
> effect here.
>

But that is from a different process.


>
> > Also having to send a serial of the event which triggers the action is
> > really unfriendly to toolkits and all of them may just have to save the
> last
> > serial globally (as what is done in weston clients now) and use it when
> > sending out the requests, what is the point then of letting the client to
> > save it instead of just saving it in the compositor? And is having a
> focus
> > really not enough?
>
> While it's mainly to make things explicit and eliminate all sorts of
> focus races, you also need it for multi-pointer support, to
> disambiguate which pointer you mean.
>

This should at most be a seat argument.


>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
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