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The point is that Wayland architecture is designed to discourage such API, secure or not (I'll also have to check, but AFAIK Wayland went with even less security support in protocol than X11[1] - not XFree/XOrg - so retrofitting is even harder). Same with accessibility et al.

Honestly, Wayland by design feels like MVP that forgot that outside certain limited systems they are missing a lot of "filler" APIs, and somehow assumed it would magically happen by itself. Unfortunately there's no DCOM on Linux in practice, and D-Bus is much more annoying to program against, so the expected "do it in D-Bus" never materialized (and was supposed to cover even things like copy-paste in the original discussions).

[1] X11 servers from vendors other than XFree/XOrg had things like advanced access controls over what applications could do, some integrated with OS-wide Mandatory Access Controls. There's also the forgotten (by most) part of the protocol for secure entry that one is supposed to use when accepting passwords and the like.

parent p_l 4 years ago

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