On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 20:57:47 +0200 Fabrice Rey <[email protected]> wrote:
> > " Why does it not have a parent window, if it is a normal application?" > There is only 1 window in this application; there is no menu or whatever. > The "circular menu" is just its name, it's not even a menu. It's an > application that owns a surface to display stuff on it, and has to place > this surface centered on the mouse. > > > "Sounds like it is not a normal application but a component of the DE," > Nope, it's a regular application that can work on any Window Manager > currently, and should be able to work on any Compositor as well. No, your video of the thing proves, that it really is a DE component, see my other reply today. > > " It sounds more like a DE feature." > As I said to Bill, there is currently such an application, and it's not > linked to Gnome/KDE/any-DE. Really it shouldn't, we need to have > compositor-agnostic applications. If KDE apps start to not work under > Gnome, we're in a serious trouble. That thing is not a normal desktop application. It is only an artefact of the unsecurity and lack of policy of the X11 protocol, that you can actually write such generic but global can-do-whatever apps. The X11 server is really a slave to all the clients. A Wayland server is not. The whole premise you are assuming here is not what we have in mind for Wayland. I explain that in my other email. Thanks, pq _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
