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by yjftsjthsd-h 1008 days ago
> That’s false in itself, what do you think Wayland protocols are? They might add some DE-specific protocol for themselves, but I don’t see why that would be a problem.

It sure looks like it's true, or did GNOME/KDE/wlroots manage to agree on a single screenshot API?
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tadfisher 1007 days ago
Yeah, XDG portals. Not something that's essential to the display protocol.

The idea that we need to be shoving tray icons and screen recording and permissions APIs into the display protocol is an Xism that folks need to let go. The display protocol should only deal with displaying things, meaning it's a standard way to give memory buffers to clients for them to draw into, and all the other crap can and should be handled elsewhere.

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yjftsjthsd-h 1007 days ago
Yeah, I'm a fan of it being an optional standard that's separate from the core display protocol. The problem is that it needs to be a standard, not 3 different standards because it wasn't standardized so 3 different groups created their own things, and all of the standards needed to replace X11 as it was actually used should have had a 1.0 spec before the whole mess was shipped to end users, let alone before users were told that this was the future that they needed to get on already.
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