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Retroactively adding security to a system where security was not a design goal is hard, so I can understand why Wayland chose to also cover those use cases. In
by pantalaimon 3y ago
Retroactively adding security to a system where security was not a design goal is hard, so I can understand why Wayland chose to also cover those use cases.
In the Desktop Linux ecosystem the added 'security' by Wayland is indeed marginal when every app can access the whole filesystem.
- cesarb 3y ago> In the Desktop Linux ecosystem the added 'security' by Wayland is indeed marginal when every app can access the whole filesystem. That's no longer the case with flatpak apps, which are gradually becoming more popular; some of them might still have access to the whole filesystem, but most of them are limited to sharing nothing or at most a couple of specific directories.