Re: On the matter of Wayland

[Fabien Bodard <gambas.fr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Fabien Bodard

Le mer. 13 août 2025 à 16:37, Bruce Steers <bsteers4@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

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> On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 at 15:03, gbWilly <gbWilly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On Wednesday, August 13th, 2025 at 07:50, Bruce Steers <
>> bsteers4@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> I think we just need to cater for a possibility restricted Wayland system.
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>> A few lines of..
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>> If Desktop.Platform <> "x11" Then Return
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>> The new Window.StartMove function fixes "most" of my Wayland issues.
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>> What's exactly the issue you're having that makes Wayland a no go?
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>> Respects
>> BruceS
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>> All in life that takes away possibilities I used to have and was able to
>> do, is my objection to this and most we get thrown at our feet these days.
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>> This is just another corporate move, into the world of open source, to
>> control the narrative and take away freedom, all in the name of the usual
>> suspects like safety, health, protect children as that sells the best.
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>> See a pattern?
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>> gbWilly
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> I do, seems pretty clear to me.
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> I think what confirmed it was the issue with Desktop.Screenshot, where as
> before it was possible to grab an image of any area/position on the screen.
> Now with Wayland their view is a program should not be able to do this for
> security reasons.
> But in an open source world where all the code is accessible there should
> not be these security reasons they speak of.
> Only in a closed source world where code is kept secret are we going to
> get those kind of problems.
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> Wayland is definitely a step towards a more commercialized linux.
> There has to be many corporate types out there who see linux as a
> potential goldmine and they all want to be as rich as Bill Gates.
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As in the past we are free to use the distribution we want.. well It will
be less enhanced but when I start linux... X11 was a luxury. (My 64 MB
machine was too just)

So yes RedHat and family want Linux as replacement for Windows.. so need a
controled environment.. but linux is not only that.


> Respects
> BruceS
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