[Wayland-bugs] [Bug 91846] Clipboard protocol requires keyboard

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91846

            Bug ID: 91846
           Summary: Clipboard protocol requires keyboard
           Product: Wayland
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: Other
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: medium
         Component: wayland
          Assignee: wayland-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: jadahl at gmail.com

The current version of wl_data_device.selection (i.e. copy-paste offers)
requires keyboard focus. In effect, this makes it a requirement to have a
keyboard attached in order to copy paste. This is not a reasonable requirement,
especially since various types of hardware that may want to run a Wayland
compositor with copy-paste capabilities may not have nor be able to have, a
keyboard.

This needs to be fixed, probably by extending wl_data_device.selection with a
focus like event.

For backward compatibility, we probably need to make this focus like event
equivalent to keyboard focus for when the seat has the keyboard capability; but
it needs to be sent regardless whether it has or not.

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