On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 12:07:52 -0700 Bill Spitzak <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. The compositor here is acting as a Wayland client to *another* compositor. That is what Weston's Wayland backend does: turns Weston into a client for another Wayland compositor. It is called nesting. - pq _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
