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by michaelmrose
1135 days ago
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Don't you think it more reasonable that features that will definitely be implemented by every desktop environment ought to be core rather than not fully standardizing on it 14 years later? https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/issues/32 Attentive designers would have standardized this in the incredibly obvious way of allowing the user to white list specific apps, logically at install time and screenshot apps would then implement a singular standard that works in version 0.1. Instead we force users to confront and understand the difference between x11 xwayland and wayland in order to figure out why their screenshot app doesn't work or doesn't work well. This doesn't enhance the case for "regular" people to use Linux. |
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It’s just the negatives of the bazaar style development, it’s not like we ever had a unified approach to desktops (remember a few years ago how tray icons and whatnot were all different between KDE and Gnome?). There is no entity like apple that can just work on the details in the background and release it overnight and say that from now on this is the supported API. An open source one has to live in the open from day 1. Mind you, the standardization will speed up considerably, the first year of that 14 is very different in pace from the last ones.
Also, screenshots are not a trivial task to get right, sure, here is its buffer is easy. But then will you also implement a screen sharing API separately? Will it just repeatedly take screenshots for like 20 FPS? That was the reason for it taking longer time, but it works very well now.