On Tuesday, November 19, 2019 1:08 PM, Pekka Paalanen <ppaala...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 12:55:31 +0100 > Guillermo Rodriguez guillerodriguez....@gmail.com wrote: > > > Hi, > > El mar., 19 nov. 2019 a las 12:38, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak > > (d...@dosowisko.net) escribió: > > > > > On 11/19/19, Pekka Paalanen ppaala...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > > yes. I'm not aware of any Wayland extension that would allow clients to > > > > dictate always-on-top behaviour on the desktop. It has an obvious > > > > attack vector (malicious or misbehaving app setting always-on-top > > > > without user's consent) and a simple corner case (how do you stack > > > > multiple always-on-top windows). > > > > OSD as a concept seems like a desktop component, not a normal app. > > > > Hence I would expect such a client to use a domain-specific or custom > > > > protocol extension to set always-on-top. If your use case is not a > > > > generic desktop but some special environment, then a domain-specific > > > > protocol extension would be a way to go. For generic desktop > > > > environments you'd integrate with the particular DE specifically, e.g. > > > > a gnome-shell plugin or something. > > > > That is, if the OSD really is an independent separate program and not a > > > > part of some fullscreen application. > > > > > > Sounds like something layer-shell protocol solves portably already. > > > > That sounds interesting. Is that supported by Weston? > > No. Not yet at least. layer-shell's goal is to provide a way to create portable desktop components, so it indeed seems like it's a nice fit for this use-case. Note that for security reasons access to layer-shell could be restricted, so layer-shell shouldn't be used by regular clients. Regarding Weston support, there's [1] which seems to implement part of layer-shell. I don't know how up-to-date and complete it is. [1]: https://github.com/myfreeweb/weston-extra-dip _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
