Collaboration on standard Wayland protocol extensions

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 09:08:55 +0300
Giulio Camuffo <giuliocamuffo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2016-03-27 23:34 GMT+03:00 Drew DeVault <sir at cmpwn.com>:
> > Greetings! I am the maintainer of the Sway Wayland compositor.
> >
> > http://swaywm.org
> >
> > It's almost the Year of Wayland on the Desktop(tm), and I have
> > reached out to each of the projects this message is addressed to (GNOME,
> > Kwin, and wayland-devel) to collaborate on some shared protocol
> > extensions for doing a handful of common tasks such as display
> > configuration and taking screenshots. Life will be much easier for
> > projects like ffmpeg and imagemagick if they don't have to implement
> > compositor-specific code for capturing the screen!
> >
> > I want to start by establishing the requirements for these protocols.
> > Broadly speaking, I am looking to create protocols for the following
> > use-cases:
> >
> > - Screen capture
> > - Output configuration
> > - More detailed surface roles (should it be floating, is it a modal,
> >   does it want to draw its own decorations, etc)
> > - Input device configuration
> >
> > I think that these are the core protocols necessary for
> > cross-compositor compatability and to support most existing tools for
> > X11 like ffmpeg. Considering the security goals of Wayland, it will also
> > likely be necessary to implement some kind of protocol for requesting
> > and granting sensitive permissions to clients.  
> 
> On this, see https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2015-November/025734.html
> I have not been able to continue on that, but if you want to feel free
> to grab that proposal.

Hi,

I may have had negative opinions related to some things on Giulio's
proposal, but I have changed my mind since then. I'd be happy to see it
developed further, understanding that it does not aim to solve the
question of authentication but only communicating the authorization,
for now.


Thanks,
pq
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