IRC meeting summary

Shaun Reich sreich at kde.org
Mon Sep 24 16:45:22 UTC 2012


Could you please elaborate on what you mean by security issues?
On Sep 13, 2012 1:08 PM, "Fredrik Höglund" <fredrik at kde.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday 12 September 2012, Ivan Čukić wrote:
> > > even tough is materal way post 4.10, if there is something really
> needed for
> > > plasma that is still not present in the protocol, we should speak up
> asap
> >
> > Will not pretend I understand the interface at all, but somebody
> mentioned
> > there will be no window ids. How will we know which window is the
> focused and
> > similar stuff?
>
> The compositor will provide a special interface to the desktop shell that
> exposes this information.  Regular clients are not allowed to know anything
> about windows that belong to other clients.
>
> This reminds me of something I forgot to mention in the IRC meeting.
> The D-BUS bindings in kwin and plasma effectively provide a way to
> circumvent the security features in wayland.  This is something that we
> need to think about going forward.
>
> Regards,
> Fredrik
>
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