Re:Wayland Protocol Finally Ready for Fractional Scaling
by WhyNotHugo on Monday November 28, 2022 @04:21AM
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I you feel so strongly about missing features, I suggest you report the issue and propose and approaches to it. Complaining on HN that "there's functionality missing" won't change anything.
I believe that the only thing missing is capturing individual windows with screencopy. There's actually an issue for that and ongoing discussion on how to implement it. Nobody's decided it's a bad idea, it's simply a matter of nobody having done it so far.
Xorg never "implemented" this feature. It's just that any client can read what other clients are doing. So Skype can screen-scrape your password manager by default. Obviously this was not a good choice, so Wayland has dedicated protocols for this functionality, with the intent of restricting them only to privileged clients.
Finally, while no _standard_ protocol exists to address this, there are compositor specific ways of capturing a single window, so most users have their needs met.
I believe that the only thing missing is capturing individual windows with screencopy. There's actually an issue for that and ongoing discussion on how to implement it. Nobody's decided it's a bad idea, it's simply a matter of nobody having done it so far.
Xorg never "implemented" this feature. It's just that any client can read what other clients are doing. So Skype can screen-scrape your password manager by default. Obviously this was not a good choice, so Wayland has dedicated protocols for this functionality, with the intent of restricting them only to privileged clients.
Finally, while no _standard_ protocol exists to address this, there are compositor specific ways of capturing a single window, so most users have their needs met.