[wing-_-nuts]

I read the article, I'm still not clear on why it's a problem. I'd have a very big problem if another user, using my machine via x forwarding, could capture my inputs, but that doesn't seem to be the case here? It seems that this is only for applications running on the same display.

So, to be blunt, this 'security feature' breaks a whole hell of a lot of use cases. If wayland wished to go down this route they should have displayed a prompt to the end user 'this application wishes to record the screen, that ok?'. The last time I made this point someone snidely informed me that 'this was not wayland's responsibility'. I'm sorry, if you break my use case you make it your responsibility!

[md8z]

That is exactly what will happen on a Wayland when you use the portal API, it shows a prompt asking for permission to record your screen and then it sends the stream over pipewire.

It is true that it isn't strictly the responsibility of the Wayland protocol, the API functionality is still there just it has moved somewhere else where it's more appropriate.