The main reason why we have factory methods is that up to some point,
kwayland had its own signal to indicate when globals have to be removed.
Now that all globals add destroy listeners for the wl_display object,
we don't have that signal. Most factory methods are equivalent to doing
new T(display).
Besides adding unnecessary boilerplate code, another reason to get rid
of the factory methods is to reduce the amount of merge conflicts. If
several persons work on implementing wayland protocols at the same time,
sooner or later someone will have to resolve merge conflicts in Display.
This was done mostly because I wanted to get rid of the Resource
dependency in AbstractDataSource so I can make our xwl bridge direct,
but this also fixes up some issues with object lifespan present in the
previous version and keeps all our clipboard code in-line.
Summary:
The main difference compared to version 2 is additional drag and drop
actions. The source and destination can negotiate whether the data
should be copied or moved or the user should be asked for either or.
This seems to be important for GTK, but is not yet implemented in Qt.
The main motivation for adding support is that it is required by SDL to
launch on Wayland.
BUG: 386993
Test Plan: Extended test case, sdl apps now start
Reviewers: #frameworks, #plasma, #kwin
Subscribers: plasma-devel
Tags: #plasma_on_wayland, #frameworks
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D9136
New base class KWayland::Server::Global which all Interface classes
for a wl_global inherit. Furthermore there is a shared base class
for all the Private classes of that type.
