Standardizing privileged Wayland operations Presented by Hans de Goede Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

Todays Topics Introduction Do we agree that these things need to be standardized ? Dbus-api, xdg-shell or new wayland extension List of operations we want to standardize

Introduction

Introduction Some operations can only be done by the compositor, e.g. : Whole desktop / other window screenshots Global hotkeys Currently desktop environments are each inventing their own dbus API-s for this This means a Gnome app cannot use this functionality under KDE, and visa versa

Do we agree that this needs to be standardized ?

dbus, xdg-shell or a new wayland extension ?

dbus, xdg-shell, or ... Currently these kind of things are done via dbus If we want to standardize these it makes more sense to make them part of the wayland protocol Does everyone agree this is better handled through the wayland protocol ? If yes, then where in the wayland protocol, xdg- shell, or ... ?

List of operations to standardize

Ops to standardize Screenshots: whole desktop and window Screenrecording Global hotkeys Colorpicker ... ?

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