There is a concern that a malicious user-space program can cause
trouble, such as covering the screen with it's window, taking all the
events, or pretending to be a system service such as a request for the
sudo password.
I think Wayland intends for compositors to prevent this, since the
compo
2011/9/22 Sam Spilsbury :
> [...] For
> example, if pages loaded by a webbrowser contained javascript that
> would allow the client window to move around then there is no way to
> guaruntee (unless you were paranoid) that this would not be allowed.
I would expect the web browser to manage what it
2011/9/22 Niklas Höglund :
> I see a lot of discussions on this list about what clients should be
> allowed to do. Is this such a big deal? All software on my Linux
> systems is free software, and if it doesn't behave it can be fixed.
> Any restrictions in what is allowed is bound to stifle innovat
I see a lot of discussions on this list about what clients should be
allowed to do. Is this such a big deal? All software on my Linux
systems is free software, and if it doesn't behave it can be fixed.
Any restrictions in what is allowed is bound to stifle innovation in
one way or another.
If I do
