Are we there yet, Mom?

Posted Dec 18, 2024 16:56 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: Are we there yet, Mom? by eru
Parent article: Xfce 4.20 released

> Still no screen-shotting in Wayland after all these years? And this is is supposed to be the designated successor of X11.

This is sorta true but misleading. There is a XDG portal for this that is commonly used. XFCE could use that or adopt the Wayland Wlr screencopy protocol

https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/doc-org...

https://wayland.app/protocols/wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1

So there are atleast two options here.

Are we there yet, Mom?

Posted Dec 18, 2024 19:51 UTC (Wed) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link] (3 responses)

According to the release information, XFCE is trying the second one, but there are still problems (and that page describes the interface as unstable).

Are we there yet, Mom?

Posted Dec 18, 2024 21:51 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (2 responses)

> According to the release information, XFCE is trying the second one, but there are still problems (and that page describes the interface as unstable).

The first one is stable, is more widely used and works well with sandboxed environments. It is unclear to me why XFCE isn't using that.

Are we there yet, Mom?

Posted Dec 19, 2024 6:57 UTC (Thu) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link] (1 responses)

After a glance at the page, it seems to me a "portal" is a service the desktop environment provides to applications. So a desktop environment like XFCE must implement it in some way.

Are we there yet, Mom?

Posted Dec 19, 2024 16:55 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Right but plenty of other desktop environments including GNOME, KDE but even Cinnamon, Cosmic, Hyperland etc have implemented the appropriate backends that can be used within the desktop environments. If any XFCE developer is around, it would be good to know why it wasn't implemented for XFCE