This is a rough intro to what Xwayland is and does, with just one
implementation detail so far (Window identification).
I paid no attention to formatting details, those can be polished in
follow-ups. I just want the prose out.
I also just quickly whacked up the diagram, would be happy to see
someone replace it with a nicer one. I just didn't have time to learn
dot for now.
v2:
- typo fix
- rephrase "talking to hardware" as "driving the displays"
- mention circular dependency in intro
- add section to explain rootless and rootful modes
- remove paragraph about Xwayland protocol usage
- move TBD part to the end under a new section header
v3:
- use "advantage" and "disadvantage" instead of "pro" and "con"
- slight rewording on rootful mode and rootless mode paragraphs
- removed the paragraph about the lack of shell and special Wayland
protocol extensions
- removed the commented out list of ideas to write
v4:
- typo fixes pointed out by Yong
Cc: Olivier Fourdan <ofourdan@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com>
Switches diagrams from using static PNG images to instead generate them via
simple graphviz DOT markup files.
Signed-off-by: Jon A. Cruz <jonc@osg.samsung.com>
This directory was called Wayland during my early tries with publican where
the source layout was different and it needed to be set to the same name as
the publican output directory. This reason doesn't exist anymore, so re-name
it to publican to make it more obvious what's hiding in here.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
