Re: OutputOnly windows

Keith Packard writes:
 > 
 > Around 9 o'clock on Nov 12, Egbert Eich wrote:
 > 
 > > True. I had opted for a new XFixesGetWindowAttributes() that does
 > > the reports everything XGetWindowAttributes() does plus new
 > > information. That would allow to make future additions in a sane
 > > way by bouncing version numbers. But maybe this is not an issue.
 > 
 > Ok, I think we can do that.  I think I'll stick a version number into the 
 > window attributes structure so we can return more stuff in the future 
 > while remaining binary compatible with older apps and not require 
 > allocations of the data structure.  This will also let me fall back to the 
 > core protocol when XFixes isn't supported.
 > 
 > I like this better than kludging the core protocol.  Thanks, Egbert.
 > 

Yesterday David Dawes made a proposal on [email protected] suggesting
to explore if it is not feasable include 'fixes' to the core protocol
into the core protocol itself and bump the minor version number.
The protocol version used on the wire could be negotiated during 
connection time much as the version of extensions is  negotiated.

I've never seen this possibility discussed anywhere.

Of course this would require to go thru the full standardization
procedures before any implementation could be released and therefore
slow down things.

Egbert.