Wayland sub-surfaces is a feature that has been brewing for a long long time, and finally it has made it into Wayland core in a recent commit + the Weston commit. The design for sub-surfaces started some time in December 2012, when the task was given to me at Collabora. It went through several RFCs and was finally merged into Weston in May 2013. After that there have been only small changes if any, and sub-surfaces matured (Or was forgotten? I had other things to do.) over several months. Now it is coming out in Wayland 1.4 (plan), but what is it really?
