Meanwhile on Wayland:
> StarDict on Wayland doesn't have this problem, because Wayland prevents applications from being able to capture text from other applications by default.
Seems irrelevant to me. I shouldn't need to defend against software provided by the official repositories. The entire point is for those to be trustworthy.
Also Wayland breaks a lot of stuff. It's certainly a move in the right direction on the whole but I wouldn't blindly interpret something like this as a win.
You are cherry picking. The next statement says that the scan feature doesn't even work on wayland. Lol. That's worse than working + buggy. (security bugs are just bugs. Nothing special about them)
> That does mean that it breaks StarDict's scan feature, though.
No, Wayland is clearly better here. Not allowing an app to do a potentially stupid privacy compromising thing is better that allowing it by default and providing no way to block it.
Better does not necessarily mean good though, that Mac approach of block by default but allow users to enable these things for specific apps on settings would be a great improvement.
fc417fc802|6 months ago
Also Wayland breaks a lot of stuff. It's certainly a move in the right direction on the whole but I wouldn't blindly interpret something like this as a win.
porridgeraisin|6 months ago
> That does mean that it breaks StarDict's scan feature, though.
badgersnake|6 months ago
Better does not necessarily mean good though, that Mac approach of block by default but allow users to enable these things for specific apps on settings would be a great improvement.
diath|6 months ago