1. Standardizing privileged
Wayland operations
Presented by
Hans de Goede
Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat
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2. 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

3. Introduction

4. 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

5. Do we agree that this needs to be standardized ?

6. dbus, xdg-shell or a new wayland extension ?

7. 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 ... ?

8. List of operations to standardize

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

10. Discussion / Q & A hdegoede@redhat.com Contact:
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