SDL2 Picks Up Support For KDE Server-Side Decorations

[phoronix]

Phoronix: SDL2 Picks Up Support For KDE Server-Side Decorations

For those of you running KDE Plasma on Wayland and making use of windowed games (or other apps) that make use of SDL2, the experience is about to become a lot better...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=SDL2-KDE-Wayland-Server-Decor

[gufide]

I found it strange to support the kwin protocol since a standard version of it has been added to XDG protocols

[boxie]

I found it strange to support the kwin protocol since a standard version of it has been added to XDG protocols

I wonder if the dev runs plasma by default - thought to give it a hack and see what happens? also would depend on what he has available to him (i.e. plasma with the XDG protocol recognised)

[cochise]

There is a Wayland protocol specification. They simply merged KWin protocol implementation. The patch is rather trivial, and reuses KWin code.

[shmerl]

What is the replacement for server side decorations protocol he mentioned?

[Sunderland93]

What is the replacement for server side decorations protocol he mentioned?

xdg-decoration https://cgit.freedesktop.org/wayland...nstable-v1.xml

[gufide]

What is the replacement for server side decorations protocol he mentioned?

It's xdg-decoration. There was a phoronixarticle about it: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...Protocols-1.15

[ssokolow]

What is the replacement for server side decorations protocol he mentioned?

Probably the XDG-Decoration protocol. It's the only thing I've heard of which even remotely fits.

• Ryan Gordon posted on the WONTFIX'd Mutter issue a day ago, asking them to reconsider their "RESO WONTFIX: We told you. Use CSD." stand.
• It's apparently supported by GTK+ with the proviso that CSD will be forced if developers follow the advice of the GNOME HIG and define in-titlebar widgets.

Originally, I'd planned for KWin to be my Wayland compositor once my nVidia card died and got replaced but, with multiple compositors getting behind an SSD standard and GNOME being GNOME, I'm liking the Arcan idea more and more:

I’ll automatically detect where the top bar is, crop it out and hide it inside a titlebar toggle in the server side defined titlebar where I have the stuff that I want to be able to do to the client. There is practically nothing GTK, or anyone else for that matter, can do to counter that.

[shmerl]

[*]Ryan Gordon posted on the WONTFIX'd Mutter issue a day ago, asking them to reconsider their "RESO WONTFIX: We told you. Use CSD." stand.

Heh, I haven't seen that one, since I'm not using Gnome. Developers are really being too stubborn there for no good reason.

[shmerl]

Originally, I'd planned for KWin to be my Wayland compositor once my nVidia card died and got replaced but, with multiple compositors getting behind an SSD standard and GNOME being GNOME, I'm liking the Arcan idea more and more

Arcan sounds interesting. Is it supposed to work with existing DEs or it's aimed at some custom DE itelf?