Is handle_surface_created() still needed?

[Gerry Boland]

On 09/03/15 09:58, Alan Griffiths wrote:
> Background:
> 
> I've been looking at our legacy defaults for window management and came
> across the handle_surface_created() method.
> 
> This is used to set the focus to a session after a surface has been
> supplied to the client but before that surface has had a frame posted.
> Hence, in a lot of cases we are setting focus to a surface that is
> invisible to the user.
> 
> Both the unity downstreams (unity-system-compositor and qtmir) disable
> this behaviour. USC replaces it with behaviour that waits for the first
> posted frame and then sets the focus - which seems like it would make a
> far better default. It isn't immediately obvious what Unity8 does, but
> it doesn't use handle_surface_created().

Like USC, Unity8/QtMir will only give input focus to a surface which has
posted at least one frame.
-G

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