Yet another Wayland thread

Hm. But it allows you to communicate with compositor only, and using protocol/wayland.xml messages only. Among others you also have a weird definition for "IPC"...

> Check the source code. There are no restrictions on message content.

protocol/wayland.xml is the source code of the protocol.

> Weston is a reference implementation of the Wayland compositor. Which is a separate piece from Wayland protocol or library. What do you not understand?

Ah! So what you called "Wayland" was libwayland-client (or was it libwayland-server?) I wonder, when you said "X" were you talking about libX11?

Anyway, I understand you now. Yes, libwayland allows you to send messages that are not part of the Wayland protocol, and you don't have to rebuild libwayland to send custom messages.

But that does not change much. In X world if you want your app displayed in some special way in your dockbar you need to patch you app and your dockbar, but you don't have to patch WM or X-server. In Wayland world you need to patch your app, dockbar and compositor. And it will work on your compositor only.