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Ben Reaves

@compositor definitely X till getting the name of the active window in focus can be obtained without going through a bazillion DE’s - if they support that at all imo. I’d think that if we cared about accessibility at all this would have been added already.

Besides being non-functional in many regards Wayland is great & only half as old as X at this point.

24 Jul 2023 at 18:44 | Wall-to-wall | Open on fosstodon.org
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Ben Reaves

@compositor yes - getting the active window or class name is extremely trivial w/ X11 & apps &/or scripts written to help w/ all sorts of use cases & accessibility needs sometimes need that awareness.

I know the response has been for DEs to all individually re-implement this feature however they see fit - but that’s a lot of fragmentation & I’ve yet to see gnome really solidify how they’ll expose it long term.

unix.stackexchange.com/questio

@compositor yes - getting the active window or class name is extremely trivial w/ X11 & apps &/or scripts written to help w/ all sorts of use cases & accessibility needs sometimes need that awareness.

I know the response has been for DEs to all individually re-implement this feature however they see fit - but that’s a lot of fragmentation & I’ve yet to see gnome really solidify how they’ll expose it long term.

24 Jul 2023 at 18:51 | Open on fosstodon.org
Wayland.social

@benreaves Wayland.social is not associated with the Wayland project by freedesktop.org; any double entendres are purely coincidental.

Perhaps somebody who sees this can help you, though :)

24 Jul 2023 at 19:01 | Open on wayland.social
Ben Reaves

@compositor the better approach imho is to implement it in Wayland in a way that allows a more direct path to 3rd party apps if given the permission to do so by the user. Otherwise 3rd party app developers will have to write separate support for each & every DE a user might use.

Macs have a privacy & security are for apps to be granted permissions for things like automation & file access. I don’t understand why we can’t do something similar.

24 Jul 2023 at 18:54 | Open on fosstodon.org
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