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| author | Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com> | 2019-08-02 17:17:32 -0400 |
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| committer | Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr> | 2019-08-17 11:12:54 +0000 |
| commit | 17e49ba8443d76f05df89c9663e3661af292a1a4 (patch) | |
| tree | 845af1cee519eb2f0aa44ae067cfff8165c52c50 /protocol | |
| parent | Add .editorconfig (diff) | |
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Improve description of wl_surface
The original text makes some assumptions about surfaces which may not be
true and fails to capture some details which are important to the
essential traits of a wl_surface.
Diffstat (limited to 'protocol')
| -rw-r--r-- | protocol/wayland.xml | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/protocol/wayland.xml b/protocol/wayland.xml index 50fe381..94d4222 100644 --- a/protocol/wayland.xml +++ b/protocol/wayland.xml @@ -1279,8 +1279,10 @@ <interface name="wl_surface" version="4"> <description summary="an onscreen surface"> - A surface is a rectangular area that is displayed on the screen. - It has a location, size and pixel contents. + A surface is a rectangular area that may be displayed on zero + or more outputs, and shown any number of times at the compositor's + discretion. They can present wl_buffers, receive user input, and + define a local coordinate system. The size of a surface (and relative positions on it) is described in surface-local coordinates, which may differ from the buffer |