</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
- <section id="sect-Protocol-Drag-and-Drop">
- <title>Drag and Drop</title>
+ <section id="sect-Protocol-data-sharing">
+ <title>Data sharing between client (selection and drag and drop)</title>
<para>
- Multi-device aware. Orthogonal to rest of wayland, as it is its own
- toplevel object. Since the compositor determines the drag target, it
- works with transformed surfaces (dragging to a scaled down window in
- expose mode, for example).
+ The Wayland 1.0 protocol provides its clients a mechanism for sharing
+ data that allows the implementation of selection and drag and drop.
+ The client providing the data creates a wl_data_source object and the
+ clients obtaining the data will see it as wl_data_offer object. This
+ interface allows the clients to agree on a mutually supported mime type
+ and transfer the data through an fd that is passed through the protocol.
</para>
<para>
- See <xref linkend="protocol-spec-interface-wl_data_offer"/>,
- <xref linkend="protocol-spec-interface-wl_data_source"/> and
- <xref linkend="protocol-spec-interface-wl_data_offer"/> for
- protocol descriptions.
+ The next section explains the negotiation between data source and data
+ offer objects. <xref linkend="sect-Protocol-data-sharing-devices"/>
+ explains how these objects are created and passed to different client
+ using the wl_data_device interface, that implements selection and drag
+ and drop support.
</para>
<para>
- Issues:
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- we can set the cursor image to the current cursor + dragged
- object, which will last as long as the drag, but maybe an request to
- attach an image to the cursor will be more convenient?
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Should drag.send() destroy the object? There's nothing to do
- after the data has been transferred.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- How do we marshal several mime-types? We could make the drag
- setup a multi-step operation: dnd.create, drag.offer(mime-type1),
- drag.offer(mime-type2), drag.activate(). The drag object could send
- multiple offer events on each motion event. Or we could just
- implement an array type, but that's a pain to work with.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Middle-click drag to pop up menu? Ctrl/Shift/Alt drag?
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Send a file descriptor over the protocol to let initiator and
- source exchange data out of band?
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Action? Specify action when creating the drag object? Ask
- action?
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </para>
- <para>
- Sequence of events:
- <orderedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The initiator surface receives a click (which grabs the input
- device to that surface) and then enough motion to decide that a drag
- is starting. Wayland has no subwindows, so it's entirely up to the
- application to decide whether or not a draggable object within the
- surface was clicked.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The initiator creates a drag object by calling the
- <function>create_drag</function> method on the dnd global
- object. As for any client created object, the client allocates
- the id. The <function>create_drag</function> method also takes
- the originating surface, the device that's dragging and the
- mime-types supported. If the surface
- has indeed grabbed the device passed in, the server will create an
- active drag object for the device. If the grab was released in the
- meantime, the drag object will be in-active, that is, the same state
- as when the grab is released. In that case, the client will receive
- a button up event, which will let it know that the drag finished.
- To the client it will look like the drag was immediately cancelled
- by the grab ending.
- </para>
- <para>
- The special mime-type application/x-root-target indicates that the
- initiator is looking for drag events to the root window as well.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- To indicate the object being dragged, the initiator can replace
- the pointer image with an larger image representing the data being
- dragged with the cursor image overlaid. The pointer image will
- remain in place as long as the grab is in effect, since the
- initiating surface keeps pointer focus, and no other surface
- receives enter events.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- As long as the grab is active (or until the initiator cancels
- the drag by destroying the drag object), the drag object will send
- <function>offer</function> events to surfaces it moves across. As for motion
- events, these events contain the surface local coordinates of the
- device as well as the list of mime-types offered. When a device
- leaves a surface, it will send an <function>offer</function> event with an empty
- list of mime-types to indicate that the device left the surface.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- If a surface receives an offer event and decides that it's in an
- area that can accept a drag event, it should call the
- <function>accept</function> method on the drag object in the event. The surface
- passes a mime-type in the request, picked from the list in the offer
- event, to indicate which of the types it wants. At this point, the
- surface can update the appearance of the drop target to give
- feedback to the user that the drag has a valid target. If the
- <function>offer</function> event moves to a different drop target (the surface
- decides the offer coordinates is outside the drop target) or leaves
- the surface (the offer event has an empty list of mime-types) it
- should revert the appearance of the drop target to the inactive
- state. A surface can also decide to retract its drop target (if the
- drop target disappears or moves, for example), by calling the accept
- method with a NULL mime-type.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- When a target surface sends an <function>accept</function> request, the drag
- object will send a <function>target</function> event to the initiator surface.
- This tells the initiator that the drag currently has a potential
- target and which of the offered mime-types the target wants. The
- initiator can change the pointer image or drag source appearance to
- reflect this new state. If the target surface retracts its drop
- target of if the surface disappears, a <function>target</function> event with a
- NULL mime-type will be sent.
- </para>
- <para>
- If the initiator listed application/x-root-target as a valid
- mime-type, dragging into the root window will make the drag object
- send a <function>target</function> event with the application/x-root-target
- mime-type.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- When the grab is released (indicated by the button release
- event), if the drag has an active target, the initiator calls the
- <function>send</function> method on the drag object to send the data to be
- transferred by the drag operation, in the format requested by the
- target. The initiator can then destroy the drag object by calling
- the <function>destroy</function> method.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- The drop target receives a <function>data</function> event from the drag
- object with the requested data.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </orderedlist>
+ See <xref linkend="protocol-spec-interface-wl_data_offer"/>,
+ <xref linkend="protocol-spec-interface-wl_data_source"/>,
+ <xref linkend="protocol-spec-interface-wl_data_device"/> and
+ <xref linkend="protocol-spec-interface-wl_data_device_manager"/> for
+ protocol descriptions.
</para>
<para>
MIME is defined in RFC's 2045-2049. A
registry of MIME types</ulink> is maintained by the Internet Assigned
Numbers Authority (IANA).
</para>
+ <section>
+ <title>Data negotiation</title>
+ <para>
+ A client providing data to other clients will create a wl_data_source
+ object and advertise the mime types for the formats it supports for
+ that data through the <function>wl_data_source.offer</function>
+ request. On the receiving end, the data offer object will generate one
+ <function>wl_data_offer.offer</function> event for each supported mime
+ type.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The actual data transfer happens when the receiving client sends a
+ <function>wl_data_offer.receive</function> request. This request takes
+ a mime type and an fd as arguments. This request will generate a
+ <function>wl_data_source.send</function> event on the sending client
+ with the same arguments, and the latter client is expected to write its
+ data to the given fd using the chosen mime type.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ <section id="sect-Protocol-data-sharing-devices">
+ <title>Data devices</title>
+ <para>
+ Data devices glue data sources and offers together. A data device is
+ associated with a wl_seat and is obtained by the clients using the
+ wl_data_device_manager factory object, which is also responsible for
+ creating data sources.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Clients are informed of new data offers through the
+ <function>wl_data_device.data_offer</function> event. After this
+ event is generated the data offer will advertise the available mime
+ types. New data offers are introduced prior to their use for
+ selection or drag and drop.
+ </para>
+ <section>
+ <title>Selection</title>
+ <para>
+ Each data device has a selection data source. Clients create a data
+ source object using the device manager and may set it as the
+ current selection for a given data device. Whenever the current
+ selection changes, the client with keyboard focus receives a
+ <function>wl_data_device.selection</function> event. This event is
+ also generated on a client immediately before it receives keyboard
+ focus.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The data offer is introduced with
+ <function>wl_data_device.data_offer</function> event before the
+ selection event.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ <section>
+ <title>Drag and Drop</title>
+ <para>
+ A drag and drop operation is started using the
+ <function>wl_data_device.start_drag</function> request. This
+ requests causes a pointer grab that will generate enter, motion and
+ leave events on the data device. A data source is supplied as
+ argument to start_drag, and data offers associated with it are
+ supplied to clients surfaces under the pointer in the
+ <function>wl_data_device.enter</function> event. The data offer
+ is introduced to the client prior to the enter event with the
+ <function>wl_data_device.data_offer</function> event.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Clients are expected to provide feedback to the data sending client
+ by calling the <function>wl_data_offer.accept</function> request with
+ a mime type it accepts. If none of the advertised mime types is
+ supported by the receiving client, it should supply NULL to the
+ accept request. The accept request causes the sending client to
+ receive a <function>wl_data_source.target</function> event with the
+ chosen mime type.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ When the drag ends, the receiving client receives a
+ <function>wl_data_device.drop</function> event at which it is expect
+ to trasnfer the data using the
+ <function>wl_data_offer.receive</function> request.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+ </section>
</section>
</chapter>
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