
Chief among those concerns has been how they are going to handle global shortcuts going forward since the X11 way -- taking raw input events from X and passing them through KglobalAccel, basically being an authorized global keylogger -- will no longer work in the Wayland world due to those very security concerns.
Going forward it appears that KglobalAccel will be turned from a daemon into a library and being integrated into Kwin. For X11 the shortcut handling should not be breaking as the existing daemon will be turned into a wrapper around the library.
Additional details, as well as the full blog post, can be found via Martin's blog.
7 Comments