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by sprash 1014 days ago
> They might add some DE-specific protocol for themselves, but I don’t see why that would be a problem.

What Wayland advocates don't see as a problem is the one of the main problems. I see a pattern here.

> years of hard work.

The only thing that takes "years of hard work" is writing a simple native Wayland client that takes screenshots.

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https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/#gdbus-org.free...

Without knowing much about dbus, or freedesktop I was able to make it work on a lazy afternoon. And it worked for me in wlroots and on gnome, I am assuming kde also implements it. How were you trying to do it that it took so long?