[PATCH weston] introduces a setting to give permission to any client to do screenshots

[Bill Spitzak]

On 12/17/2013 02:38 AM, Giulio Camuffo wrote:

> You can't talk to another client directly, you must always pass
> through the server (unless you use dbus or some other ipc, of course).
> And you don't need to give the trusted client a key, you just need to
> tell the server some client is trusted, using the same mechanism
> weston uses internally to launch trusted clients. That's what the
> links I posted are doing.

I think I see. So a trusted client can exec another client and make it 
trusted as well.

Is there any way for the first client to restrict how "trusted" the 
second client is? What I imagine is a first client that has access to 
every wayland api. It would like to run the screen saver and only give 
it screen-saver access.

Also is this api available for untrusted clients? Can a parent client 
create a surface, then using this api exec another client, and that 
child client is able to attach buffers to that surface?

What I was trying to propose is a way for one client to choose exactly 
what objects another client can use. It would give that other client a 
"key" (using dbus or argv or other ipc, not using wayland). That other 
client then sends a message to the wayland server with the "key" and 
receives the actual object.