On 03/09/2015 11:34 PM, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 10:56:23 -0700
Bill Spitzak <[email protected]> wrote:
On 03/09/2015 01:20 AM, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
However, we already also have an exception to this in upstream: the
Wayland backend needs to draw the output window decorations.
Sorry can you explain that in more detail?
An application that is a Wayland client needs to draw its own
decorations (always when using the current form of our shell protocol
extensions for the desktop).
That is a reason a Wayland compositor does *not* need to do drawing.
It sounded like there is a requirement that a compositor must be able to
do drawing, which I don't understand.
Admittedly in any real compositor it will probably do it's own drawing,
for things like popup menus or to draw the panel. But I got the
impression that this is not a requirement. I can certainly imagine a
compositor that either avoids all that or launches clients for all these
things.
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