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Privledged Request Protocol

Open Quackdoc opened this issue 6 months ago • 7 comments

The windowing system is not the place to restrict what applications are and are not allowed to do.

Realistically for Wayland this ship has sailed, but we ofc should be able to make the best of the situation, Wayland has "Privileged" protocols. These protocols are often quite nice, but it's somewhat arbitrary as to what a "privileged" application is. Compositors will implement these, and some while lock it down, while Cosmic allows disabling some of the security COSMIC_ENABLE_WAYLAND_SECURITY=1 (I'm not sure they have even implemented it yet) Not all compositors will.

A protocol to request becoming a privileged application would be a good compromise from Wayland's security focus and flexibility, and may make implementing "privledged" protocols more palatable

Quackdoc avatar Dec 27 '23 16:12 Quackdoc