Support for the xdg-toplevel-icon protocol

[danielfrrrr]

Hello, wayland has a new protocol for clients to set their window icons.

Does sfwbar intend to support this protocol? It's a very exciting protocol, since not all programs have a desktop entry, such as most programs run through wine.

On the wlroots side, support for the protocol has just been landed, so I believe that some compositors will soon be using this protocol.

On the client side, in wine there is a pending MR, which can be used for testing.

[LBCrion]

I've been following this protocol in wayland-protocols, but unfortunately it won't be enough on it's own to solve the icon issue in bars.

This protocol provides means for an application to expose an icon to a compositor. What it doesn't provide is means for the compositor to share this icon with other applications (such as sfwbar). I think the most likely candidate for this missing step would be ext-foreign-toplevel-info, but I don't think transmission of icons has been discussed in this protocol so far.

[danielfrrrr]

I've been following this protocol in wayland-protocols, but unfortunately it won't be enough on it's own to solve the icon issue in bars.

This protocol provides means for an application to expose an icon to a compositor. What it doesn't provide is means for the compositor to share this icon with other applications (such as sfwbar). I think the most likely candidate for this missing step would be ext-foreign-toplevel-info, but I don't think transmission of icons has been discussed in this protocol so far.

I get it. Thanks for the info, I didn't know about this limitation. :O

Since this protocol is currently unusable for sfwbar, should I close this issue?