Re: Wayland porting in gnome-settings-daemon

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Thu, 2013-07-04 at 13:00 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-07-04 at 11:56 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > On 4 July 2013 11:47, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> > > It's not available.
> >
> > I figured the compositor would provide a DBus interface to play with
> > this, or is all the control logic going into the compositor too?
>
> This means that the XRandR plugin in gnome-settings-daemon would be
> replaced by something handled in the compositor. It would probably be
> tailored to our use cases than than all encompassing as the xrandr API
> currently is.

One thing that was just pointed out to me is that there are some things
that are currently suboptimal or not present at all in xrandr, and we
could take this opportunity to make sure they are covered. Examples are:

- multi-gpu configuration (Optimus...)
- identifying special-purpose outputs (projectors)