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authorAndyZhou <zhoumy@cn.fujitsu.com>2021-12-06 17:47:55 +0800
committerMarius Vlad <marius.vlad@collabora.com>2021-12-17 15:52:49 +0000
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agl-compositor: Correct several spell or grammar issues in the README.md file.
There are several issues in the README.md file. Modify to correct them. Bug-AGL: SPEC-4154 Signed-off-by: AndyZhou <zhoumy@cn.fujitsu.com> Change-Id: I3a26692ba5257f99038262fdd1e45d87dd84da08
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@@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ further customize layer and orientation of surfaces.
These have **no** particular meaning, except that it hints the compositor where
they should be stacked or where to position them. The background one occupies
-the most lower layer, the desktop ones on top and the panel surfaces the upper
-most layer.
+the lowest layer, with the desktop role ones on top of it, and the panel role
+surfaces on the uppermost layer.
Additional roles have been added, in a different extension, to add further
functionality with the control/security functions being transferred over to a
@@ -86,8 +86,8 @@ further details.
Clients can make use of this protocol to define different kind of roles for
different kind of surfaces. This defines panels and a background surface. It
-includes to ability to activate other applications, assuming that those are
-already running. Activation happens by using using the app_id, respectively
+includes the ability to activate other applications, assuming that those are
+already running. Activation happens by using the app_id, respectively
using set_app_id request as defined by the XDG shell protocol. Established
client-side implementation of the XDG shell protocol will have a function used
to set it up, or it should provide or expose an API to do so.
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ for the client shell to activate them.
This extension is targeted at keeping some of the functionally already
established in AGL a) to allow applications display/activate other
-surfaces/application window, and b) to set further roles, specially dialog
+surfaces/application window, and b) to set further roles, such as dialog
pop-ups and split-type of surfaces.
Clients can make use of this protocol to set further roles, like independently
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ roles, and with this extension we add some further roles. These are: split
these are encoded with different values such that there's a translation needed,
between the protocol values and the internal values.
-Besides the roles, additional data can to be passed, but only relevant
+Besides the roles, additional data can be passed, but only relevant
depending on the role.
#### Receiving application state events from (other) applications
@@ -132,13 +132,13 @@ needed.
Both agl-shell and agl-shell-desktop have requests to activate other
application based on their XDG shell app_id. In case the application is
-present/running it it will attempt to make the surface backing that application
-the current activate one, with each output having independently active
+present/running, it will attempt to make the surface backing that application
+the current active one, with each output having independent active
surfaces.
### Explicit output
-The activation and setting surface roles requires passing an output
+Activation and setting of surface roles requires passing an output
(wl_output). The output is the wayland interface representation of an output
and is **mandatory**. Clients can retrieve it (the output) if they wish to
place the surface on other outputs by using the toolkits exposing wayland
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ Both protocols assume immediate, synchronous behaviour and to some extent lack
some error handling functionality.
Role assignment to surfaces could probably be improved with an additional
-interface with can add further data, if that roles assumes that to be true.
+interface that could add further data, if a role requires it.
There seems to be some overlapping functionality with respect to activating
applications, so a potential improvement would be that the agl-shell protocol
@@ -174,12 +174,12 @@ issue:
$ meson -Dprefix=/path/to/where/to/install/compositor -Dpolicy-default=deny-all build_directory
-Users wanting to create their own policy engine should create a specialized
+Users wanting to create their own policy engine should create a specialized
version and use `struct ivi_policy_api` where they can install their own
callbacks.
The default policy found in src/policy-default.c should more than sufficient to
-get started. Users can either re-puporse the default policy or create a new one
+get started. Users can either re-purpose the default policy or create a new one
entirely different, based on their needs.
### Hooks
@@ -209,8 +209,8 @@ or hiding the application specified in the policy rule.
#### Default events and states
-By default the when creating the policy framework it will add the 'show', and
-'hide' events and the 'start', 'stop' and 'reverse' states. An special type,
+By default, when creating the policy framework it will add the 'show', and
+'hide' events and the 'start', 'stop' and 'reverse' states. A special type,
assigned by default is 'invalid'.
#### State changes