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Semantics, if you're using GNOME or KDE like most users they support the org.freedesktop.portal.ScreenCast interface when running under Wayland.

I'm not sure if there are any compositor specific interfaces or why they would be used when xdg portals exist.

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Not Semantics. It shows how Wayland forces a Gnome/GTK and KDE/Qt duopoly and cuts out the long tail of hobbyists and power users. The latter is the interesting part about the FOSS/Linux-Desktop ecosystem. With Wayland the FOSS-Desktop will be 100% corporate controlled. If essential things were properly standardized this wouldn't happen. Therefore it's obviously done on purpose as means for sabotage.

Can you please knock off the conspiracy theories? You don't have to bring yourself down to that level.

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