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Standardizing privileged operations
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One Line Summary
Discussion about standardizing how privileged operations like screenshots or registering global hotkeys can be done.
Abstract
With wayland apps which want to do certain privileged operations, like taking a screenshot or registering global hotkey handler need to go through a privileged application, typically the compositer.
Currently desktop environments like gnome are rolling their own (dbus) based API-s for this. This is undesirable, as this means that a qt wayland app may be able to only do hotkeys under kde, and a gtk app under gnome, so we should standardize this.
Discussion points:
1) Do we agree that these things should be standardized
2) dbus-api or xdg_shell (or a new wayland proto extension)
3) Make a list of operations we want to standardize
Presentation Materials
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Hans de Goede
Red HatBiography
Hans has been a Linux developer since 1996, working for Red Hat since 2008. He primarily works on Linux webcam support, USB redirection for virtual machines and has recently joined Red Hat’s Graphics team working on the input stack for wayland.
Hans has given talks on a variety of topics at Fosdem, Plumbers and KVM forum.
Sessions
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- Title: Standardizing privileged operations
- Microconference: Wayland
- Time: 1:50pm
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One Line Summary:
Discussion about standardizing how privileged operations like screenshots or registering global hotkeys can be done.
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- Speakers: Hans de Goede
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