xdg-desktop-portal

The author is not from the places where he claims that these are laws. The Californian law is not in effect. Dylan M. Taylor's GH profile claims that he's from Durham, NC (which does not have this law). He also references to a draft to xdg-desktop-portal which has not been accepted. (Add parental controls to the Accounts portal: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1922) I'm asking: - What is this guy's personal interest in pushing this through? (It seems non-neccessary and is questionable at what the end goal) - Who's political agenda is he sponsoring for this? - Is he getting financially incentivized to do this?

Hacker News damaged the link: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1922#issu... > To require devices to conduct commercially reasonable age assurance for users under the age of 18 at the point of device activation, unlocking the ability to enforce all other digital privacy and safety laws for underage users

There is an xdg-desktop-portal which an application can use to register a global shortcut. https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/blob/main/data... Not sure which compositor support this and which ones don't. Hyprland, which I use, supports it. There is also ydotool, which can emit key presses anywhere in Linux by registering a virtual uinput device. https://github.com/ReimuNotMoe/ydotool Using these two building blocks, it should not be very difficult to implement an application that implements global macro support.

>Not losing all the work every time your windows manager crashes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37509703 >remapping keys >Use xinput to change parameters of their input devices (libinput dropped most configuration options present with evdev) Up to the compositor. >Global shortcuts Also up to the compositor. Was added to xdp in https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/blob/main/data... so it's up to the compositor's xdp impl to provide it. It was created by a KDE dev so I assume KDE implements it at least. >tunnelling over ssh https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe

> - O proper screen recording support Works just fine. I use OBS. > - broken screen sharing Never had any trouble with it. > - No proper global keyboard shortcut > - No push to talk support On its way: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/711 / https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/#gdbus-org.free... > - Several problems with multiple screens Haven't had any more than on X11, but then again I do use Nvidia hardware on Linux.

It might help, but at this point Linux containers can't really stabilize the whole environment, especially for games. Particular pain points include accelerated graphics (which theoretically can have a stable kernel interface, but in practice is so complex and performance-sensitive that it's not stable enough to be a "reference platform", so to speak) and modern game controllers (which present a whole mess of concerns typically "addressed" in Flatpak by granting the device=all permission and hoping for the best [1]). I also know a guy who ran into issues with a kernel update breaking a custom allocator, although I don't know the fine details. That wasn't for a game, but games also use custom allocators for various reasons. [1] https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/536

I don't use Wayland, but it seems xdg-desktop-portal since 1.16.0 has a 'Global Shortcuts portal'. Perhaps check it out. https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal

Indeed, and the document portal seems to have built-in support for atomic writes by first writing to a temporary file and then renaming it (https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/blob/main/docu...), so it should be possible to avoid this scenario altogether.

Isn't xdg-desktop-portal a flatpak thing? It claims to be so here: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal > A portal frontend service for Flatpak and possibly other desktop containment frameworks. When it comes to global shortcuts, I'm not saying it has a super easy solution, but it's something that it's essential to support. Wayland intentionally doesn't, and I can't see that changing in the short term (as you also agree)

Yes: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/711 Requires DE integration. Currently works on KDE only.

That post is some pretty bad misinformation. An API for global keyboard shortcuts was being worked on and just got merged 2 months ago. https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/issues/624 There is a way to protect against LD_PRELOAD: use sandboxing. X11 is bad for security because it's an intentional escape around the sandbox. The "tear it down and build something else argument" is also going nowhere, anything else you build is going to run into the same questions of how to go about implementing these features.

>no forethought given to apps that need global keybinds Please see this pull request for a description of some of the current challenges with getting global shortcuts to work: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/711 >no forethought to screen capture The plan for a while has been to put screen capture in Pipewire, this is already working for apps that support it. In any case, X11 also does not have any forethought in relation to hotkeys or screen capture. Technically it has no API for either of those, it has APIs that allow all applications to intercept all keys, and to allow all applications to read the contents of any window. Those APIs can be used to do hotkeys and screen capture in a rudimentary and somewhat broken way but they are not ideal. Just copying those (or an API that looks like those) into Wayland would be an u

wlroots & kde both have their own xdg-desktop-portal-*[1][2]'s, which don't seem to be built by Red Hat. xdg-desktop-portal itself originates from Flatpak[3], which makes me think it's more like to related to Canonical/Ubuntu rather than being something RH drove. [1] https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32008412 (2 pts, 30 min ago) [2] https://github.com/KDE/xdg-desktop-portal-kde [3] https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal