https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359531
--- Comment #2 from Jonas Ådahl <jad...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to Martin Gräßlin from comment #1) > xdg_shell is not yet a standardized protocol with API compatibility > guarantees. This makes it almost impossible to wrap it in an ABI stable > library as KWayland is. > > Even if we added support for it, it is unlikely that this would solve the > problem of gtk applications crashing. Due to the unstable xdg_shell one > needs to have exactly the same version of the unstable protocol to have it > working. As GTK+, Wayland, Qt and KWin releases are not synced it becomes > unlikely that all of them have the same magic version. KWin would probably > follow the version used in the QtWayland release of the Qt build dep. That's > about 1 year behind what Wayland has and thus most likely also behind what > GTK+ has. Given that it would still not work. > > Overall that's the reason why I so far refused to spend time on adding > support for xdg_shell. I simply don't see how it would fix anything of this > compatibility issue. I have it on my todo list, but it will be hidden behind > an explicit compile time flag. This is the only way how we can solve the API > instability problem in our stable KWayland library. > > Obviously the problem here is that gtk hard depends on an unreleased, not > standardized interface. It should check whether it exists and if not either > exit (heck one could also use X11, no need to crash just because there's a > Wayland socket) or fall back to wl_shell as Qt does. > > I'm setting to INVALID as the bug in question is in GTK and not in KWin. > Support for xdg_shell will be added eventually but I do not see the lack of > support for an unstable interface as a bug in KWin. I agree that this bug should be marked as invalid since this is about actually about a gtk+ bug. And FWIW, last time I tested gtk+ would fail gracefully and fallback on X11, so this seems to be a regression. That being said, it would be appreciated if kwin would support xdg_shell (or at least the next version xdg_shell that is in the making that fixes various issues with the current version) as an experimental feature at least. Not only to make future gtk+ clients testable but also to improve the cross-desktop-ness of xdg_shell, given that we receive feedback. The option we have is to declare some future version stable without there being a kwin implementation, and we would either need to live with that version (as a base) or stay incompatible indefinitely. If you create a bug tracking that progress, please CC me so I can stay updated. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
