collection of surfaces owned by a MirConnection <<==== SurfaceSet?
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Alan Griffiths <alan.griffi...@canonical.com
> wrote:

> On 03/06/14 15:39, Gerry Boland wrote:
> > Your reasons for why Session is a bad name would help the discussion.
>
> Because it is the collection of surfaces owned by a MirConnection - and
> "session" doesn't convey *any* of that.
>
> > I've always thought that since Mir is a server, why not refer to clients
> > as "Client" -
>
> Currently there is no representation of a "client" in Mir - nor is there
> a simple way to identify one: We do try to identify the PID of the
> process talking over a socket but there are limits to that.
>
> > I interpret Application as a client that creates a window
> > for a user to interact with - but configuration tools & snapshotting
> > tools may not create a window (i.e. for scripting)
> > -G
>
> OK, so "Application" might not be a good name either.
>
> And, if you move onto the desktop, an application can have more than one
> windows for a user to interact with.
>
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