wayland-server: Add API to control globals visibility
Add a new API to let compositor decide whether or not a wl_global
should be advertised to the clients via wl_registry_bind() or
display_get_registry()
By using its own filter, the compositor can decide which wl_global would
be listed to clients.
Compositors can use this mechanism to hide their own private interfaces
that regular clients should not use.
- Hiding interfaces that expose compositor implementation details
makes it harder for clients to identify the compositor. Therefore
clients are a little less likely to develop compositor-specific
workarounds instead of reporting problems upstream.
- Hiding can be used to diminish the problems from missing namespacing:
if two compositors happen to use the same named global with
different interfaces for their special-purpose clients, the client
expecting the different interface would probably never see it
advertised.
Signed-off-by: Olivier Fourdan <ofourdan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Yong Bakos <ybakos@humanoriented.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
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