I hope this translates to "We won't let applications steal focus and pop on top of the window you are using". :-) Always good to hear that Wayland is making progress.
Phoronix: Wayland's Window Stacking & Raising Design
Besides tool-kit advancements, other happenings in the world of Wayland this week pertain to coming up with a suitable window stacking and raising design for this next-generation display server...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA0NDY
I hope this translates to "We won't let applications steal focus and pop on top of the window you are using". :-) Always good to hear that Wayland is making progress.
is Bill Spitzak doing work (payed) for Canonical ????
This seems like something where you can get very good inspiration from Khronos.
They already made some standards that do compositing and other stuff.
http://www.khronos.org/ (EGL and OpenMAX in particular)