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Re:When Time Comes for GTK5, It Might Be Wayland-Only on Linux by eternityforest on Sunday July 03, 2022 @08:54PM (#31972394)
This might be Wayland's killer app. I usually say the only reason I'd ever use wayland is when Mint makes it default.

Otherwise, it's cool and all, but it's not a complete spec by itself since it leaves stuff like screen recording to implementations.

When distros are confident enough to say their implementation is ready, I'll accept it, till then, it doesn't seem to have any real big new features besides the secure isolation.

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Re:When Time Comes for GTK5, It Might Be Wayland-Only on Linux by ungamedplayer on Sunday July 03, 2022 @09:39PM (#31972622)
Isn't all screen recording an implementation ?

Edit: I do OBS screen recording.. didnt know it was such a big deal. Fedora 34,35, 36 ish ? has it working, but I imagine that is pipewire + obs. Its pretty easy.

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Re:When Time Comes for GTK5, It Might Be Wayland-Only on Linux by pxc on Monday July 04, 2022 @03:52AM (#31974564)
Wayland doesn't specify the APIs required to support screen recording, so each Wayland server implementation has to decide if/how to offer its own such interfaces. This basically means it's up to each desktop environment, although there are now some shared implmentations of this and other features in wlroots.
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Re:When Time Comes for GTK5, It Might Be Wayland-Only on Linux by Crysstalis on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @03:04PM (#31992334)
Screen recording is out of scope for wayland. Each server doesn't have to decide anything, basically every desktop working on this has converged on using pipewire for screen recording.
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