Hey,

I was just made aware that there are actually proposed protocols for
this in the pipeline, although I am not sure how realistic it is that
they'll be merged anytime soon:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/196
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/156


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Thanks!

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On Thu Dec 5, 2024 at 3:45 PM CET, Willow Barraco wrote:
> Thanks for the context. Okay it means I should not start relying on this
> until the upstream protocols also support activated, or similar.

I don't think there is currently anyone working on this. If you want
an extension to ext-foreign-toplevel-list to get such information, I
think the best way would be to bring it forth yourself.

I'll happily provide the client implementation required for inclusion
in wayland-protocols with lswt.

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On Thu Dec 5, 2024 at 7:44 AM CET, Willow Barraco wrote:
> Or at least let the use to choose which one they want?

I have added an option to force the usage of a protocol, I hope it's
useful.

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Thanks!

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On Thu Dec 5, 2024 at 7:44 AM CET, Willow Barraco wrote:
> I'm investigating why we don't have activated support on Sway 1.10.
> And it seems as it support protocols, lswt then just use
> ext-foreign-toplevel-list.

Both protocols are supported and ext-foreign-toplevel-list is
preferred over zwlr-foreign-toplevel-control. This is because the ext
protocol is in wayland-protocols while the zwlr one isn't. As far as I
am aware, the zwlr protocol will be deprecated.

I think the idea is to have additional extensions to
ext-foreign-toplevel-list for servers that do wish to support extra
functionality, like activating toplevels, moving them to other
worksapces, etc., but unfortunately no such protocol has appeared

Pushed a fix to master. Do you need a release?

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Thanks for the report! When I implemented the
ext-foreign-toplevel-info protocol I actually had no server to test
again, so this does not surprise me.


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I don't get the warning, but this seems more correct regardless, so I
pushed your patch to master. Thanks!

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I do indeed no longer consider stacktile maintained, both because I
riverguile replaces it for me and because the upcoming river WM
protocol will deprecate all of this anyway. But I have pushed your
patches to master. Some time ago I turned my typical zig ini tokenizer
into a package, a patch replacing the one shipped with stacktile with
that package might be a good idea as well.


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