Call for Discussion : New Project to support the Wayland display server on Linux

[Philip Race]

I have heard this but we'll see how it plays out in practice.
X11 already allows a window manager to not place the window exactly 
where you asked for it, or
ignore other requests to do with window geometry.

However in practice you usually get something very close to what you 
requested.
It can be written like that to provide for some situations in which the 
desktop has no way to exactly honour the client's request
without it being a complete unpredictable mess.
I'm sceptical that anyone will be happy with a desktop that when you ask 
it to show that file manager dialog
in the middle of the screen instead decides the bottom right hand corner 
of your screen is where it will show it today
and tomorrow top-left .. so a spec. allowing something isn't the same as 
it always happening.


And the AWT spec. already allows for this :
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https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.desktop/java/awt/Window.html

Note: the location and size of top-level windows (including Windows, 
Frames, and Dialogs) are
under the control of the desktop's window management system. Calls to 
setLocation, setSize, and setBounds
are requests (not directives) which are forwarded to the window 
management system.
Every effort will be made to honor such requests. However, in some cases 
the window management
system may ignore such requests, or modify the requested geometry in 
order to place and size the
Window in a way that more closely matches the desktop settings

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If anything about wayland *requires* a spec. update that would be a 
problem as it would make it more
onerous to backport to older JDKs if it is needed.

-phil.

On 7/16/21 6:18 AM, Robert Marcano wrote:
> On 7/7/21 9:24 AM, Philip Race wrote:
>>
>>>
>> There are some unknowns and questions, such as what are the options 
>> for supporting Robot ?
>> What other support is missing ? What platform APIs should the 
>> implementation  use ?
>> How does a native Wayland solution interoperate with OpenJFX ?
>
> Among the APIs in consideration are all related to window positioning. 
> Wayland doesn't allow clients to tell the window position, the reason 
> is that Wayland compositors aren't expected to be always traditional 
> desktops, for example a tiling window manager.
>
> There were a proposal to add a cookie like extension to allow 
> applications to say Wayland to store the current position and the then 
> be able to restore it later, but I don't think that progressed too much.
>
>>
>>
>> Comments, expressions of interest etc are welcome.
>>
>>
>> -Phil Race, for the Java client groups.
>>
>>
>> [1] : https://wayland.freedesktop.org/
>> [2] : 
>> https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.desktop/java/awt/Robot.html 
>>
>