This interface is used by KF5 powered Wayland shells to communicate with
the compositor and can only be bound one time.
Warning! The protocol described in this file is a desktop environment
implementation detail. Regular clients must not use this protocol.
Backward incompatible changes may be added without bumping the major
version of the extension.
Create a shell surface for an existing surface.
Only one shell surface can be associated with a given
surface.
An interface that may be implemented by a wl_surface, for
implementations that provide the shell user interface.
It provides requests to set surface roles, assign an output
or set the position in output coordinates.
On the server side the object is automatically destroyed when
the related wl_surface is destroyed. On client side,
org_kde_plasma_surface.destroy() must be called before
destroying the wl_surface object.
The org_kde_plasma_surface interface is removed from the
wl_surface object that was turned into a shell surface with the
org_kde_plasma_shell.get_surface request.
The shell surface role is lost and wl_surface is unmapped.
Assign an output to this shell surface.
The compositor will use this information to set the position
when org_kde_plasma_surface.set_position request is
called.
Move the surface to new coordinates.
Coordinates are global, for example 50,50 for a 1920,0+1920x1080 output
is 1970,50 in global coordinates space.
Use org_kde_plasma_surface.set_output to assign an output
to this surface.
Assign a role to a shell surface.
The compositor handles surfaces depending on their role.
See the explanation below.
This request fails if the surface already has a role, this means
the surface role may be assigned only once.
== Surfaces with splash role ==
Splash surfaces are placed above every other surface during the
shell startup phase.
The surfaces are placed according to the output coordinates.
No size is imposed to those surfaces, the shell has to resize
them according to output size.
These surfaces are meant to hide the desktop during the startup
phase so that the user will always see a ready to work desktop.
A shell might not create splash surfaces if the compositor reveals
the desktop in an alternative fashion, for example with a fade
in effect.
That depends on how much time the desktop usually need to prepare
the workspace or specific design decisions.
This specification doesn't impose any particular design.
When the startup phase is finished, the shell will send the
org_kde_plasma.desktop_ready request to the compositor.
== Surfaces with desktop role ==
Desktop surfaces are placed below all other surfaces and are used
to show the actual desktop view with icons, search results or
controls the user will interact with. What to show depends on the
shell implementation.
The surfaces are placed according to the output coordinates.
No size is imposed to those surfaces, the shell has to resize
them according to output size.
Only one surface per output can have the desktop role.
== Surfaces with dashboard role ==
Dashboard surfaces are placed above desktop surfaces and are used to
show additional widgets and controls.
The surfaces are placed according to the output coordinates.
No size is imposed to those surfaces, the shell has to resize
them according to output size.
Only one surface per output can have the dashboard role.
== Surfaces with config role ==
A configuration surface is shown when the user wants to configure
panel or desktop views.
Only one surface per output can have the config role.
TODO: This should grab the input like popup menus, right?
== Surfaces with overlay role ==
Overlays are special surfaces that shows for a limited amount
of time. Such surfaces are useful to display things like volume,
brightness and status changes.
Compositors may decide to show those surfaces in a layer above
all surfaces, even full screen ones if so is desired.
== Surfaces with notification role ==
Notification surfaces display informative content for a limited
amount of time. The compositor may decide to show them in a corner
depending on the configuration.
These surfaces are shown in a layer above all other surfaces except
for full screen ones.
== Surfaces with lock role ==
The lock surface is shown by the compositor when the session is
locked, users interact with it to unlock the session.
Compositors should move lock surfaces to 0,0 in output
coordinates space and hide all other surfaces for security sake.
For the same reason it is recommended that clients make the
lock surface as big as the screen.
Only one surface per output can have the lock role.
The panel is on top of other surfaces, windows cannot cover (full screen
windows excluded).
The panel is hidden automatically and restored when the mouse is over.
Windows can cover the panel.
Maximized windows take the whole screen space but the panel is above
the windows.
Set flags bitmask as described by the flag enum.
Pass 0 to unset any flag, the surface will adjust its behavior to
the default.
Deprecated in Plasma 6. Setting this flag will have no effect. Applications should use layer shell where appropriate.
Setting this bit to the window, will make it say it prefers to not be listed in the taskbar. Taskbar implementations may or may not follow this hint.
A panel surface with panel_behavior auto_hide can perform this request to hide the panel
on a screen edge without unmapping it. The compositor informs the client about the panel
being hidden with the event auto_hidden_panel_hidden.
The compositor will restore the visibility state of the
surface when the pointer touches the screen edge the panel borders. Once the compositor restores
the visibility the event auto_hidden_panel_shown will be sent. This event will also be sent
if the compositor is unable to hide the panel.
The client can also request to show the panel again with the request panel_auto_hide_show.
A panel surface with panel_behavior auto_hide can perform this request to show the panel
again which got hidden with panel_auto_hide_hide.
By default various org_kde_plasma_surface roles do not take focus and cannot be
activated. With this request the compositor can be instructed to pass focus also to this
org_kde_plasma_surface.
An auto-hiding panel got hidden by the compositor.
An auto-hiding panel got shown by the compositor.
Setting this bit will indicate that the window prefers not to be listed in a switcher.
Request the initial position of this surface to be under the current
cursor position. Has to be called before attaching any buffer to this surface.