[Development] QtWayland windows decoration on the Raspberry Pi

[Massimo Callegari]

Thanks Robin and Laszlo for the replies.
So I take QtWayland is still a work in progress especially on the Pi.
I personally believe QtWayland should have a special regard for the RPi platform, as they are abandoning the Xorg server, and looking forward to lighter solutions to give users a smoother UI experience. Just my personal opinion, don't take me wrong.
As far as I know, the same is not happening on desktop systems, at least not in a short term.
If Qt can be a first class option to write applications on the RPi + Wayland then you guys have made bingo !
So I guess my current options are to wait if someone ports decoration on the brcm backend or go the QtQuick way (which I already started to do)
Thanks again,Massimo

      Da: Agocs Laszlo <laszlo.agocs at theqtcompany.com>
 A: Robin Burchell <robin+qt at viroteck.net>; Massimo Callegari <massimocallegari at yahoo.it> 
Cc: "development at qt-project.org" <development at qt-project.org> 
 Inviato: Lunedì 15 Dicembre 2014 13:19
 Oggetto: Re: [Development] QtWayland windows decoration on the Raspberry Pi
   

You are most certainly using the brcm backend since you don't have decorations. wayland-egl (the only one that has decoration support atm) does not work on the Pi with the default graphics stack. Not sure about the state of Mesa.

Cheers,
Laszlo


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From: development-bounces+laszlo.agocs=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org <development-bounces+laszlo.agocs=theqtcompany.com at qt-project.org> on behalf of Robin Burchell <robin+qt at viroteck.net>
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 1:04 PM
To: Massimo Callegari
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Subject: Re: [Development] QtWayland windows decoration on the Raspberry Pi

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Massimo Callegari
<massimocallegari at yahoo.it> wrote:
> So, my application runs on Maynard using "-platform wayland" but all the
> windows are not decorated. So basically I have the same result as if I run
> it on eglfs.

See: https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/93128/

> So, my questions to the QtWayland guys are:
>
> - have you people already done some tests on Weston/Maynard on the Raspberry
> Pi ?

I haven't personally touched the Pi since I fried mine a year or more
ago. I don't know of many other people working on there, either, but
perhaps there's someone lurking that I don't know of.

> - how could I check which backend the QtWayland QPA is loading ?

The easiest way is probably to just make sure that you have the right
client buffer integration plugin available. But I'm not sure if the
regular one even works on the pi - at least I presume there's a reason
there's a custom integration made available of it.

> - is there any chance to have windows decorations (bradient ?) on the RPi or
> is it something still being evaluated/developed ?

If someone does the work for it, possibly.

Robin
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