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  Weston's full-screen shell protocol RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-18 09:18 +0000
    Re: Weston's full-screen shell protocol Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-03-18 09:27 +0000
      Re: Weston's full-screen shell protocol Dario Niedermann <dnied@tiscali.it> - 2014-03-18 14:15 +0100
        Re: Weston's full-screen shell protocol Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-20 17:56 +0100

#1758 — Weston's full-screen shell protocol

From the «not sure why I need this?» department:
Title: Weston's Full-Screen Shell Protocol Revised Again
Author:
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 00:55:07 -0400
Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Phoronix/~3/qGYOuLFZgsc/vr.php

The full-screen shell protocol for Wayland's Weston compositor will allow for
features like splash screens and terminal emulators as simple full-screen
clients, but the code is still being revised ahead of its hopeful merger...[image 1]

Links:
[1]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Phoronix/~4/qGYOuLFZgsc (image)

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#1762

RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> From the «not sure why I need this?» department:
> Title: Weston's Full-Screen Shell Protocol Revised Again
> Author:
> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 00:55:07 -0400
> Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Phoronix/~3/qGYOuLFZgsc/vr.php

> The full-screen shell protocol for Wayland's Weston compositor will allow for
> features like splash screens and terminal emulators as simple full-screen
> clients, but the code is still being revised ahead of its hopeful merger...[image 1]

> Links:
> [1]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Phoronix/~4/qGYOuLFZgsc (image)

And just why, on a large screen monitor, does half of everyone think I
want any "full-screen" clients?

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#1764

Rich <rich@example.com> wrote:

> RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
[...]
>> The full-screen shell protocol for Wayland's Weston compositor will allow for
>> features like splash screens and terminal emulators as simple full-screen
>> clients, but the code is still being revised ahead of its hopeful merger
[...]
> And just why, on a large screen monitor, does half of everyone think I
> want any "full-screen" clients?

For watching video?

-- 
> cat /etc/slackware-version && uname -mprs
Slackware 14.0
Linux 3.12.0-dn i686 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MK-36

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#1825

On 2014-03-18, Dario Niedermann <dnied@tiscali.it> wrote:
> Rich <rich@example.com> wrote:
>
>> RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> [...]
>>> The full-screen shell protocol for Wayland's Weston compositor will
>>> allow for features like splash screens and terminal emulators as
>>> simple full-screen clients, but the code is still being revised ahead
>>> of its hopeful merger
> [...]
>> And just why, on a large screen monitor, does half of everyone think I
>> want any "full-screen" clients?
>
> For watching video?

Hmm. I've got 134 apps in my Mac's /Applications folder.

Out of that lot I've got 4 browsers and (I think) 3 apps dedicated to
playing video.

-- 
Paul Sture

"In that case," said Napoleon, "let us wait twenty minutes; when the enemy
is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt him."

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