[vlc-devel] backporting wayland inhibiter module to 3.x branch

[Alexandre Janniaux]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 02:30:57PM +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> I mean that there's several known grave functionality issues, which is why the whole thing is explicitly experimental and unsupported in 3.0.

I asked the question because I have no knowledge of the several
known grave functionality issues you're mentioning in my
everyday usage of VLC on Sway.

I understand that if this is too experimental, it shouldn't be
backported and you're the one who wrote this so might have
a better understanding of the stability of this, but I was
mostly curious about your point, which is not really clear to
be honest.

Regards,
--
Alexandre Janniaux
Videolabs

> Le 27 janvier 2020 14:19:34 GMT+02:00, Alexandre Janniaux <ajanni at videolabs.io> a écrit :
> >Hi,
> >
> >What do you mean ? What are your issues ?
> >
> >I use it everyday without much issues, only this and
> >a compositor-specific bug with the Qt fullscreen
> >controller.
> >
> >Regards,
> >--
> >Alexandre Janniaux
> >Videolabs
> >
> >On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 01:28:06PM +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Wayland is mostly unusable in VLC 3.0 for other reasons than
> >inhibiting the screensaver. So I don't see the point in back-porting
> >that.
> >>
> >> Le 27 janvier 2020 12:47:36 GMT+02:00, Alexandre Janniaux
> ><ajanni at videolabs.io> a écrit :
> >> >Hi,
> >> >
> >> >The wayland inhibit module has been there since 2018 thanks to
> >> >Rémi, but never went to a 3.x release, which means that there
> >> >is no wayland inhibiter for Wayland compositors.
> >> >
> >> >The wayland protocol used is experimental and unstable, but
> >> >can be found on the project repository. [1]
> >> >
> >> >[1]
> >>
> >>https://github.com/wayland-project/wayland-protocols/tree/master/unstable/idle-inhibit
> >> >
> >> >As an unstable protocol, I understand it never went to 3.x
> >> >branch before, but is supported by at least wlroots (sway)
> >> >and KDE.  It is not supported by GNOME though, which iirc
> >> >still uses DBus inhibiter.
> >> >
> >> >As there are reports of inhibiter not working on multiple
> >> >compositor using this feature, would it make sense to
> >> >backport this module in 3.x or is it too unstable to be
> >> >integrated and users should wait 4.0?
> >> >
> >> >Thanks for your input,
> >> >
> >> >Regards,
> >> >--
> >> >Alexandre Janniaux
> >> >Videolabs
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