• @Limonene
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    117 days ago

    I worry about Wayland for the features it drops from X11. Wayland will never have xdotool support, due to its security model. I worry about onscreen keyboards for drawing tablets and screen readers for the blind.

    • Communist
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      16 days ago

      This is not true, ydotool already works and there’s nothing against that in the wayland design, it just works differently than x, not not at all

      gnome is working on an accessibility protocol for wayland called newton, check it out.

      • @Limonene
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        16 days ago

        ydotool is missing a lot of features. It emulates an input device, so it can only send inputs to the active window. xdotool can send keystrokes to non-active windows, and has features for searching for a window to send to. xdotool can minimize, dismiss, or move windows around.

        I’m aware of newton. It’s a work in progress, though, and doesn’t have as many features as X11 accessibility has. Although it might have enough features eventually, I worry that X11 will be deprecated by operating system vendors before that.