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Bug 4121

Summary: Migrate the Wayland backend to xdg-shell stable
Product: SDL Reporter: bugs
Component: videoAssignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P2 CC: icculus
Version: HG 2.0   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   

Description bugs 2018-04-01 07:49:47 UTC 
xdg-shell has been stable since the 1.12 release of wayland-protocols in December, it is strange for SDL2 to have got support for the previous unstable version in February.

This is needed for compositors which will not implement the unstable version, note that both can be supported for the time being.

You can have a look at how I implemented it in GLFW: https://github.com/glfw/glfw/pull/1152
Comment 1 Ryan C. Gordon 2018-04-02 17:29:27 UTC 
(In reply to bugs from comment #0)
> xdg-shell has been stable since the 1.12 release of wayland-protocols in
> December, it is strange for SDL2 to have got support for the previous
> unstable version in February.

I chose that because Ubuntu 17.10 isn't shipping the stable version yet. My presumption is the "unstable" version, which is almost identical, won't be removed from Wayland systems for a long time, if ever.

(we will eventually implement the stable version in SDL, and probably also keep unstable as well for older systems.)

--ryan.
Comment 2 Ryan C. Gordon 2018-06-25 05:52:34 UTC 
(In reply to Ryan C. Gordon from comment #1)
> (we will eventually implement the stable version in SDL, and probably also
> keep unstable as well for older systems.)

And now I have, since Ubuntu 18.04 has the stable protocol:

https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/bc702c5a7c3a

--ryan.