2016-03-27 23:34 GMT+03:00 Drew DeVault <[email protected]>: > Greetings! I am the maintainer of the Sway Wayland compositor. > > http://swaywm.org > > It's almost the Year of Wayland on the Desktop(tm), and I have > reached out to each of the projects this message is addressed to (GNOME, > Kwin, and wayland-devel) to collaborate on some shared protocol > extensions for doing a handful of common tasks such as display > configuration and taking screenshots. Life will be much easier for > projects like ffmpeg and imagemagick if they don't have to implement > compositor-specific code for capturing the screen! > > I want to start by establishing the requirements for these protocols. > Broadly speaking, I am looking to create protocols for the following > use-cases: > > - Screen capture > - Output configuration > - More detailed surface roles (should it be floating, is it a modal, > does it want to draw its own decorations, etc) > - Input device configuration > > I think that these are the core protocols necessary for > cross-compositor compatability and to support most existing tools for > X11 like ffmpeg. Considering the security goals of Wayland, it will also > likely be necessary to implement some kind of protocol for requesting > and granting sensitive permissions to clients.
On this, see https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2015-November/025734.html I have not been able to continue on that, but if you want to feel free to grab that proposal. Cheers, Giulio > > How does this list look? What sorts of concerns do you guys have with > respect to what features each protocol needs to support? Have I missed > any major protocols that we'll have to work on? Once we have a good list > of requirements I'll start writing some XML. > > -- > Drew DeVault > _______________________________________________ > wayland-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
