Wayland's Fullscreen Shell Protocol Is Still Baking

The original aim of the "system compositor protocol" was to have an interface for compositors where all they do is nothing but showing other compositors or full-screen interfaces. This is still in effect the case but rather than being called a "system compositor" protocol it will just be the fullscreen shell protocol. The protocol was renamed since there have been some different views over Wayland as a system compositor itself.
In the latest patches by Jason Ekstrand, there's the Wayland protocol support along with an implementation of the proposed "wl_fullscreen_shell" as a Weston shell plug-in, and simple-shm modifications to make it a simple full-screen shell client. Still to be coded are Wayland back-end support implementations for the fullscreen shell.
This latest protocol work can be found on the wayland-devel mailing list.
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