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| author | Bryce Harrington <bryce@osg.samsung.com> | 2015-01-27 16:32:16 -0800 |
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| committer | Bryce Harrington <bryce@osg.samsung.com> | 2015-02-04 21:49:30 -0800 |
| commit | 310fea467cf714d3ed7d66747c463790246f9be1 (patch) | |
| tree | 9740f06b277a18bed6b8ee910176b408290ed0bb /doc | |
| parent | 8094426a4168b78b924210e97ef178c78c1d296f (diff) | |
doc: Fill in high level description for Surfaces
Signed-off-by: Bryce Harrington <bryce@osg.samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon A. Cruz <jonc@osg.samsung.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/publican/sources/Protocol.xml | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/publican/sources/Protocol.xml b/doc/publican/sources/Protocol.xml index 5f3e852..477063b 100644 --- a/doc/publican/sources/Protocol.xml +++ b/doc/publican/sources/Protocol.xml @@ -282,9 +282,16 @@ <section id="sect-Protocol-Surface"> <title>Surfaces</title> <para> - Surfaces are created by the client. - Clients don't know the global position of their surfaces, and - cannot access other clients surfaces. + A surface manages a rectangular grid of pixels that clients create + for displaying their content to the screen. Clients don't know + the global position of their surfaces, and cannot access other + clients' surfaces. + </para> + <para> + Once the client has finished writing pixels, it 'commits' the + buffer; this permits the compositor to access the buffer and read + the pixels. When the compositor is finished, it releases the + buffer back to the client. </para> <para> See <xref linkend="protocol-spec-wl_surface"/> for the protocol |