Plans for portals that integrate widgets inside the app window?

Robert McQueen rob at endlessm.com
Mon Jun 27 10:37:27 UTC 2016


On 27/06/16 08:41, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-06-24 at 01:22 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote:
>>  
>> The fact that we need to use GTK+ widgets to implement those (which I
>> can completely understand) makes the phishing/spoofing easier. I'm
>> not
>> sure what the differentiation will be, but we'll need to come up with
>> a
>> design solution to this problem.
>>  
> 
> In particular, client side decorations make it petty hard...

Perhaps we could have the compositor distinguish priveleged portals by
doing something only the compositor has the privelege to do - such as
blur/tint/hide/etc the other windows, or capture input in some kind of
modal way that Wayland makes it impossible to for other clients to do?

Thanks,
Rob

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