Originally posted by wertigon
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...and that's why I think they're idealistic fools because we're already seeing applications circumvent the Wayland security model in order to provide users the features they desire. (eg. by asking users to grant permission for applications to synthesize keyboard input via the kernel-level uinput APIs, which obviously can't present granny-friendly per-application GUI permission prompts.)
When users need functionality, and application developers are determined to meet that need, you can't prevent them from achieving it on an open-source operating system... you can only choose whether or not you force them to smash your pretty security model to achieve it.
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