wayland-server: Add API to control globals visibility
Add a new API to let compositor decide whether or not a wl_global should be advertised to the clients via wl_registry_bind() or display_get_registry() By using its own filter, the compositor can decide which wl_global would be listed to clients. Compositors can use this mechanism to hide their own private interfaces that regular clients should not use. - Hiding interfaces that expose compositor implementation details makes it harder for clients to identify the compositor. Therefore clients are a little less likely to develop compositor-specific workarounds instead of reporting problems upstream. - Hiding can be used to diminish the problems from missing namespacing: if two compositors happen to use the same named global with different interfaces for their special-purpose clients, the client expecting the different interface would probably never see it advertised. Signed-off-by: Olivier Fourdan <ofourdan@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Yong Bakos <ybakos@humanoriented.com> Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.co.uk>
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