Bug 49021

Summary: Ideas: A wayland settings protocol to tell clients about themes, fonts, etc.
Product: Wayland Reporter: Darxus <darxus>
Component: waylandAssignee: Wayland bug list <wayland-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: medium CC: ben, bugzilla, mitya57
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Darxus 2012-04-20 12:29:04 UTC 
A wayland settings protocol to tell clients about themes (icons, cursors, widget themes), fonts details (family, hinting preferences) etc.  Just send all settings at connect time, send updates when a setting change.  Getting a little close to gconf here, but could be pretty simple:

     interface "settings":
       event int_value(string name, int value)
       event string_value(string name, string value)

but maybe it's better to just require that clients get that from somewhere else (gconf/dbus).
Comment 1 Kristian Høgsberg 2012-10-22 14:17:27 UTC 
We'll explore this idea later, not a 1.0 feature.
Comment 2 Dmitry Shachnev 2013-06-16 09:21:17 UTC 
+1. This protocol can also be used to ensure that different toolkits (i.e. Qt and Gtk) use the same theme / fonts / etc (in X11 we currently have XSettings specification for that).
Comment 3 Ben Creasy 2018-02-18 09:19:30 UTC 
According to Wikipedia, Wayland 1.0 shipped late 2012. Time to revisit?
Comment 4 Daniel Stone 2018-06-04 08:44:48 UTC 
Resolved to be handled out of band, rather than forcing it through the window system.

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