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The weston_surface structure is split into two structures:
* The weston_surface structure storres everything required for a
client-side or server-side surface. This includes buffers; callbacks;
backend private data; input, damage, and opaque regions; and a few other
bookkeeping bits.
* The weston_view structure represents an entity in the scenegraph and
storres all of the geometry information. This includes clip region,
alpha, position, and the transformation list as well as all of the
temporary information derived from the geometry state. Because a view,
and not a surface, is a scenegraph element, the view is what is placed
in layers and planes.
There are a few things worth noting about the surface/view split:
1. This is *not* a modification to the protocol. It is, instead, a
modification to Weston's internal scenegraph to allow a single surface
to exist in multiple places at a time. Clients are completely unaware
of how many views to a particular surface exist.
2. A view is considered a direct child of a surface and is destroyed when
the surface is destroyed. Because of this, the view.surface pointer is
always valid and non-null.
3. The compositor's surface_list is replaced with a view_list. Due to
subsurfaces, building the view list is a little more complicated than
it used to be and involves building a tree of views on the fly whenever
subsurfaces are used. However, this means that backends can remain
completely subsurface-agnostic.
4. Surfaces and views both keep track of which outputs they are on.
5. The weston_surface structure now has width and height fields. These
are populated when a new buffer is attached before surface.configure
is called. This is because there are many surface-based operations
that really require the width and height and digging through the views
didn't work well.
Signed-off-by: Jason Ekstrand <jason@jlekstrand.net>
Weston Weston is the reference implementation of a Wayland compositor, and a useful compositor in its own right. Weston has various backends that lets it run on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev input as well as under X11. Weston ships with a few example clients, from simple clients that demonstrate certain aspects of the protocol to more complete clients and a simplistic toolkit. There is also a quite capable terminal emulator (weston-terminal) and an toy/example desktop shell. Finally, weston also provides integration with the Xorg server and can pull X clients into the Wayland desktop and act as a X window manager. Refer to http://wayland.freedesktop.org/building.html for buiding weston and its dependencies.