Relative Pointer Motion Patches Published For Wayland's Weston

[erendorn]

You are wrong. Going off screen just like minimize is very much an application action. It is requested by the "compositor"(sic), but it still informs the application and often makes specific demands on what the application needs to do, you can't have application not on screen on a phone running pointless animations in the background for instance, for exactly the same reason minimize was invented on desktops in the 80s and 90s.

Well, on android and iOS, applications just get events, on which they must act. This is very much single direction, nothing is initiated by the app (on android the app can minimize itself by asking "show desktop", that's quite different from asking "minimize me", and certainly not a well though minimize protocol).
So no, the "minimize me" concept is not implemented on current touch platforms. It is a wider problem than the "you are minimized" concept (which is actually just "stop doing stuff"), which simply requires OS events (difficult to separate windows manager API from OS API on these platforms, but it's something you can implement on the later if you need quick and dirty).

[Ansla]

Showing multiple windows on screen at the same time (and hence the need to minimize/maximize/resize one app) is an afterthought on touch platforms indeed, and still in its infancy. But that's no reason to brag about or imitate on desktop as well.

[erendorn]

Showing multiple windows on screen at the same time (and hence the need to minimize/maximize/resize one app) is an afterthought on touch platforms indeed, and still in its infancy. But that's no reason to brag about or imitate on desktop as well.

Minimize is already in the protocol extension for the desktop shell. Could be useful for touch UI too for this use-case, but as you say it is a bit too soon to have it standardized yet.