| Core wayland protocol |
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| - Maybe try to make remote wayland actually happen, to see if there |
| is something in the protocol/architecture that makes it harder than |
| it should be. |
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| ICCCM |
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| - mime-type guidelines for data_source (ie, both dnd and selection): |
| recommended types for text or images, types that a clipboard |
| manager must support, mime-types must be listed in preferred order |
| |
| - we need a "no kb focus please" mechanism. Or should this be |
| implicit in a specific surface type? |
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| EWMH |
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| - configure should provide dx_left, dx_right, dy_top, dy_bottom, or |
| dx, dy, width and height. |
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| - move to workspace, keep on top, on all workspaces, minimize etc |
| requests for implementing client side window menu? or just make a |
| "show window menu" request to let the compositor display and manage |
| a popup window? |
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| - window move and resize functionality for kb and touch. |
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| - Protocol for specifying title bar rectangle (for moving |
| unresponsive apps). Rectangle for close button, so we can popup |
| force-close dialog if application doesn't respond to ping event |
| when user clicks there. We could use the region mechanism here |
| too. |
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| - popup placement protocol logic. |
| |
| - subsurface mechanism. we need this for cases where we would use an |
| X subwindow for gl or video other different visual type. |
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| EGL/gbm |
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| - Land Robert Braggs EGL extensions: frame age, swap with damage |
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| - Make it possible to share buffers from compositor to clients. |
| Tricky part here is how to indicate to EGL on the server side that |
| it should make an EGLImage available to a client. We'll need a |
| "create a wl_buffer for this EGLImage for this client" kind of |
| entry point. |
| |
| - Protocol for arbitrating access to scanout buffers (physically |
| contiguous memory). When a client goes fullscreen (or ideally as |
| the compositor starts the animation that will make it fullscreen) |
| we send a "give up your scanout buffer" to the current fullscreen |
| client (if any) and when the client acks that we send a "try to |
| allocate a scanout buffer now" event to the fullscreen-to-be |
| client. |
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| Misc |
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| - glyph cache |
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| - Needs a mechanism to pass buffers to client. |
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| buffer = drm.create_buffer(); /* buffer with stuff in it */ |
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| cache.upload(buffer, x, y, width, height, int hash) |
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| drm.buffer: id, name, stride etc /* event to announce cache buffer */ |
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| cache.image: hash, buffer, x, y, stride /* event to announce |
| * location in cache */ |
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| cache.reject: hash /* no upload for you! */ |
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| cache.retire: buffer /* cache has stopped using buffer, please |
| * reupload whatever you had in that buffer */ |
| |
| - A "please suspend" event from the compositor, to indicate to an |
| application that it's no longer visible/active. Or maybe discard |
| buffer, as in "wayland discarded your buffer, it's no longer |
| visible, you can stop updating it now.", reattach, as in "oh hey, |
| I'm about to show your buffer that I threw away, what was it |
| again?". for wayland system compositor vt switcing, for example, |
| to be able to throw away the surfaces in the session we're |
| switching away from. for minimized windows that we don't want live |
| thumb nails for. etc. |
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| Clients and ports |
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| - port gtk+ |
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| - draw window decorations in gtkwindow.c |
| |
| - Details about pointer grabs. wayland doesn't have active grabs, |
| menus will behave subtly different. Under X, clicking a menu |
| open grabs the pointer and clicking outside the window pops down |
| the menu and swallows the click. without active grabs we can't |
| swallow the click. I'm sure there much more... |
| |
| - dnd, copy-paste |
| |
| - Investigate DirectFB on Wayland (or is that Wayland on DirectFB?) |
| |
| - SDL port, bnf has work in progress here: |
| http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~bnf/sdl-wayland/ |
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| Ideas |
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| - A wayland settings protocol to tell clients about themes (icons, |
| cursors, widget themes), fonts details (family, hinting |
| preferences) etc. Just send all settings at connect time, send |
| updates when a setting change. Getting a little close to gconf |
| here, but could be pretty simple: |
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| interface "settings": |
| event int_value(string name, int value) |
| event string_value(string name, string value) |
| |
| but maybe it's better to just require that clients get that from |
| somewhere else (gconf/dbus). |
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| Crazy ideas |
| |
| - AF_WAYLAND - A new socket type. Eliminate compositor context |
| switch by making kernel understand enough of wayland that it can |
| forward input events as wayland events and do page flipping in |
| response to surface_attach requests: |
| |
| - ioctl(wayland_fd, "surface_attach to object 5 should do a kms page |
| flip on ctrc 2"); |
| |
| - what about multiple crtcs? what about frame event for other |
| clients? |
| |
| - forward these input devices to the client |
| |
| - "scancode 124 pressed or released with scan codes 18,22 and 30 |
| held down gives control back to userspace wayland. |
| |
| - what about maintaining cursor position? what about pointer |
| acceleration? maybe this only works in "client cursor mode", |
| where wayland hides the cursor and only sends relative events? |
| Solves the composited cursor problem. How does X show its |
| cursor then? |
| |
| - Probably not worth it. |