Clearly, the Wayland core protocol developers must think exactly like you, because recent versions of Linux (Plasma 6, Ubuntu 22.04, etc) with Wayland have gone waaaaay too far in that direction.
Nothing can ever grab your screen ever. For example, when I click on a link in my messaging app, I get a notification that “Chrome is ready” so I should switch to it. Like… seriously?
I think your script didn’t format correctly:
Needs more user agent:
Firefox(like Chrome)+Plasma(inc.KDE)+Wayland(like X11)+systemd+GNU/Linux
I thought you were talking about systemd discoverable partitions specification:
https://uapi-group.org/specifications/specs/discoverable_partitions_specification/
I remember hearing something about requiring a multi million dollar deposit or something that made it infeasible for all but the largest of tech companies.
It really doesn’t. My girlfriend needed to enable the Japanese keyboard on Kubuntu. That required half an hour of searching documentation and forum posts about how to install/enable FCITX5, then another hour debugging to find out it doesn’t work on apps installed via snap.
I still haven’t been able to come up with a KDE based distro (because it’s way more familiar to Windows users) that actually meets the needs of non technical users.
We don’t have corporations manipulating our feeds
yet. Once we have enough users that it’s worth their effort to target, the bullshit will absolutely come.
Nah, you can build algorithms that make depressed teenagers with little to no tracking. Especially if they can train said algorithms from data they already have from the rest of the world.