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Really wish there were more community members like @Conan_Kudo who care about the greater "Desktop Linux" as a whole, not just about one particular distribution. And actually do things on a volunteer basis. Appreciate his work bridging communities, e.g., his work to bring Snap to Fedora. Sounds like an uphill battle though?

Regarding , @Conan_Kudo nails it with "total protocol breakage and everything being completely different". And interesting to hear that @BrodieOnLinux is not using due to "issues". "There are issues with Nvidia, absolutely. There are issues with window-manager-y things." So basically we all agree!

@probono@fosstodon.org @Conan_Kudo@fosstodon.org @BrodieOnLinux@linuxrocks.online he's not using wayland because his issues where hyperland specific and Sway's got some missing features he likes.

Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ) :fedora:

@10leej @BrodieOnLinux @probono Right, I'm aware of the philosophy that wlroots (and xdg-desktop-portal-wlr) holds, and it is unlikely that x-d-p-wlr will gain complete portal services coverage because of it.

@Conan_Kudo @10leej @BrodieOnLinux @probono Uh?
But anyway for OBS there's wlrobs which is nicely efficient thanks to dmabuf letting you have zero-copy (so the situation goes better than on XOrg).
hg.sr.ht~scoopta/wlrobs - None - sourcehut hg

@Conan_Kudo @10leej @probono The specific thing that I was missing is window capture, which I'm pretty sure is available for GNOME and KDE, but Wlroots not so much. Hyprland with it's custom portal was the only way to make it happen on that side

@BrodieOnLinux @10leej @probono It won't get implemented in xdg-desktop-portal-wlr until this is resolved: gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots

wlroots has some *interesting* constraints that prevent it from using the solution everyone else uses, notably that Sway wants everything going through Wayland IPC rather than reusing other stuff when available.

GitLabCapture individual windows/surfaces? (#93) · Issues · wlroots / wlr-protocols · GitLabCreated by: tmccombs The screencopy protocol doesn't seem to have a great way to capture individual windows (toplevel surfaces?). It might be able to build...