>There should be some low level implementation that pops up a box asking the user if they wish to allow that app to do that
I'm not sure what you mean. This is actually exactly what is being done in GNOME and KDE's wayland implementations.
I'm not sure what you mean. This is actually exactly what is being done in GNOME and KDE's wayland implementations.
I just disagree with the whole concept that a desktop environment, window manager, or whatever else has to change because the underlying display server changes. That should be fully transparent. It seems to me that these guys have handed way too much off to the desktop / window manager, washed their hands of it and said 'deal with it'.
The push behind wayland happened specifically because the desktop environments wanted to implement their own display server, and it was becoming problematic to try to make it happen transparently. It's actually somewhat of the reverse of what you're saying, desktop environments can only wash their hands of things and push them off to the X server for so long before it becomes untenable.