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Well, with the way we hope to do it we'll leave it to your package manager to establish trust in most cases. So if you install a screenshot tool from your packa

Well, with the way we hope to do it we'll leave it to your package manager to establish trust in most cases. So if you install a screenshot tool from your package manager, it'll be installed with all of the necessary permissions set up, and you'll never be prompted. It's important to us that users are able to use tools and workflows that they're comfortable with on X in a secure manner on Wayland.

phkahler 8y ago
>> It's important to us that users are able to use tools and workflows that they're comfortable with on X in a secure manner on Wayland. X is a free-for-all. X-eyes is cute but should not be possible. At some point, a web application is going to want to take a screen-shot (webX anyone?). The web browser will then be given permission to take screen shots without user interaction, and then it's all over. Sharing ones screen is NOT a browser function, it's an OS function. Changing the way software developers see this is the correct path forward, but it's hard. Providing people the same functionality that X did will lead to the same problems that X has.