xdg-shell: Clarify ack_configure behaviour

Right now many toolkits (toytoolkit, gtk+ and EFL) will send an
ack_configure request immediately in response to a configure event,
even if they're not immediately committing the surface at that time.

This leads to a situation where multiple configures receive ack_configure
before any commit happens.

There's really no reason for that sequence of events to bother a compositor,
so this just clarifies the language to make it ok.

Signed-off-by: Derek Foreman <derekf@osg.samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre@mecheye.net>
dev
Derek Foreman 9 years ago committed by Bryce Harrington
parent 0b7da01c04
commit dcba1a10d3
  1. 12
      protocol/xdg-shell.xml

@ -398,8 +398,8 @@
<description summary="ack a configure event">
When a configure event is received, if a client commits the
surface in response to the configure event, then the client
must make a ack_configure request before the commit request,
passing along the serial of the configure event.
must make an ack_configure request sometime before the commit
request, passing along the serial of the configure event.
For instance, the compositor might use this information to move
a surface to the top left only when the client has drawn itself
@ -407,6 +407,14 @@
If the client receives multiple configure events before it
can respond to one, it only has to ack the last configure event.
A client is not required to commit immediately after sending
an ack_configure request - it may even ack_configure several times
before its next surface commit.
The compositor expects that the most recently received
ack_configure request at the time of a commit indicates which
configure event the client is responding to.
</description>
<arg name="serial" type="uint" summary="the serial from the configure event"/>
</request>

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