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Is there something you lack in Wayland but have in xorg? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Screen sharing is different thing, there is no fragmentation there.

But in order to take screenshot I had to write different code:

For Gnome.

For KDE. It also requires special line in desktop file for security reasons.

For all other DEs.

Global shortcuts are even worse. It also DE specific and users have to manually register them in DE settings. In order for your application to support this, it should export such functions via the Dbus interface. And all this incompatible with Windows (my app is cross-platform), so I had to provide in-app interface for global shortcuts too that works for Windows and X11 users.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Oh no. Oh no. Way to shoot ourselves in the foot, Wayland.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What prevents you from using org.freedesktop.portal.Screenshot with GNOME and KDE as well? They both support taking screenshots using that method.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, you on GNOME and KDE you don't have org.freedesktop.portal.Screenshot method in /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Not trying to be a menace, but I just tried it out using xdg-portal-test-kde and the screenshot portal definitely works on KDE Plasma 5.27.10. If you are experiencing issues with that, please create a bug report for xdg-desktop-portal-kde so it can be fixed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Strange, doesn't work for me, I also run 5.27.10. Will take a look, thanks!