From: Peter Hutterer Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 01:29:00 +0000 (+1000) Subject: doc: Improve "Library" and "Compositors" chapter X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3ddedc053ff48fc6311be2d533aea84c2e8b756d;p=profile%2Fivi%2Fwayland.git doc: Improve "Library" and "Compositors" chapter Originally written Tiago Vignatti Some modifications to adjust for previously merged conflicting patches and link to the sections (instead of ). Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer --- diff --git a/doc/publican/sources/Compositors.xml b/doc/publican/sources/Compositors.xml index 725c35a..eea627c 100644 --- a/doc/publican/sources/Compositors.xml +++ b/doc/publican/sources/Compositors.xml @@ -9,6 +9,17 @@ Compositors come in different types, depending on which role they play in the overall architecture of the OS. + For instance, a + system compositor + can be used for booting the system, handling multiple user switching, a + possible console terminal emulator and so forth. A different compositor, a + session compositor + would provide the actual desktop environment. There are many ways for + different types of compositors to co-exist. + + + In this section, we introduce three types of Wayland compositors relying + on libwayland-server.
@@ -45,7 +56,7 @@ X applications can continue working under a session compositor - by means of a root less X server that is activated on demand. + by means of a root-less X server that is activated on demand. Possible examples for session compositors include @@ -77,6 +88,12 @@ + Weston with X11 or Wayland backend is a session compositor nested + in another session compositor. + + + + fullscreen X session under Wayland diff --git a/doc/publican/sources/Library.xml b/doc/publican/sources/Library.xml index 77408cc..bc8c89e 100644 --- a/doc/publican/sources/Library.xml +++ b/doc/publican/sources/Library.xml @@ -5,6 +5,23 @@ ]> Wayland Library + + + The open-source reference implementation of Wayland protocol is split in two + C libraries, libwayland-server and + libwayland-client. Their main + responsibility is to handle the Inter-process communication + (IPC) with each other, therefore guaranteeing the + protocol objects marshaling and messages synchronization. + + + + This Chapter describes in detail each library's methods and their helpers, + aiming implementors who can use for building Wayland clients and servers; + respectively at and + . + +