xdg-output: deprecate the xdg_output.done event
This commit makes it so a wl_output.done event is guaranteed to be sent with a xdg_output.done event. This protocol change has been discussed in a recent xorg-devel discussions [1]. First let's recap why a change is needed: Xwayland listens to both wl_output and xdg_output changes. When an output's properties change, Xwayland expects to receive both a wl_output.done event and an xdg_output.done event. If that's not the case, Xwayland doesn't update its state (so old state is still exposed to X11 clients). Most of the time, both objects will be updated at the same time (e.g. the current mode is changed, so both wl_output.mode and xdg_output.logical_size are sent) so this won't be an issue. However in some situations only one of wl_output or xdg_output changes. For instance: - The mode is changed at the same time as the scale, resulting in the same logical_size. - The compositor doesn't expose the outputs' position via wl_output, so whenever the position changes only xdg_output is updated. Both KDE [2] and wlroots [3] have experienced this issue. For this reason, I'd like to update the xdg-output protocol to make it mandatory to always send a wl_output.done event after xdg_output changes. This effectively makes wl_output.done atomically apply all output state (including the state of add-on objects like xdg_output). This approach is pretty similar to wl_surface.commit: this request will atomically apply surface state including the state of e.g. the xdg_surface object tied to the wl_surface. To update the protocol to reflect this new requirement we can either: - **Bump xdg_output version**. The current protocol doesn't specify that wl_output.done must be sent, adding this new requirement would be a breaking change. We need to fix Xwayland for the current xdg_output version (maybe make it non-atomic for the current version, atomic for the new one?). Should we deprecate xdg_output.done in the new version? - **Don't bump xdg_output version**. This clarifies what is expected in practice by Xwayland, a major xdg_output consumer, and what is currently implemented by all compositors. There's one issue with the "don't bump" approach: indeed in practice compositors always send wl_output.done and xdg_output.done in pairs, however the ordering between those two events is not guaranteed. This means some compositors might send this sequence: wl_output.geometry(…) wl_output.done() xdg_output.logical_position(…) xdg_output.done() In this case the wl_output.done event fails to atomically apply the xdg_output state. For this reason, I think bumping the version is a better approach. This commit also deprecates xdg_output.done, which doesn't have any purpose anymore. [1]: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2019-April/058148.html [2]: https://phabricator.kde.org/D19253 [3]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/4064 Signed-off-by: Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr> Reviewed-by: Olivier Fourdan <ofourdan@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com>
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