They convinced their employers Wayland would be better?
> Xscreensaver/lock screens on Qubes are still broken.
Most people aren't nation-state-level targets and don't worry about security to that degree. But they do like global hotkeys.
For local state, it's easier to just install a wireless camera and watch your screen from behind: it leaves no trace on your computer (you may spot it wireless connection, if you lucky). Moreover, they are more interested in your communication devices (your smartphone) than in your desktop.
Foreign states may exploit your notebook builtin "anti-theft" system, Intel Management Engine ("intel" is very good name for a CPU ;-), bugs in NVidia firmware (fonts, OpenGL, etc), bugs in hardware (create a second display to mirror image from primary display to, even when physical display is not attached, for example), etc.
However, I saw that my Firefox window was spied by Chromium window few years ago (I recorded it on Youtube), so this problem in X11 is real.
It is when you are essentially putting bars in front of your windows while leaving the front door unlocked, i.e. you are making things worse in the name of security while not actually providing any additional security.
> Yeah, but with how we’re moving towards running each (desktop) application in its own cgroup, thus restricting what syscalls any given application can do
Who is we? I don't want or need any of that on my free software system.
I think the original maintainers and developers of Xorg would be the best people to choose if it is worthwhile to continue working around X or do something else. Yes, X provided functionality that now WMs get to implement themselves - since the developers of Xorg worked closer to Gnome and Qt people, and Gnome and Qt people were OK with this, this didn’t feel like a horrible trade off. And given the diversity of Wayland window managers today, I don’t think it mattered all too much.
> I think the original maintainers and developers of Xorg would be the best people to choose if it is worthwhile to continue working around X or do something else.
"I think the owners of the Internet infrastructure would be the best people to choose what websites I'm allowed to visit"
No, the users have spoken and continue to speak up that Wayland doesn't serve their use cases.
It is the same, yet some uppercase characters are not supported when entered via a yubikey. This has been marked as a WONTFIX. This is rather sad, because I can enter the same password in a TTY with no issues.
Also, this level of security is wanted even on a "I don't want my sister to look at my stuff" level, no need to go nation-state level.
The most active implementation (particularly in the early days) is probably wlroots, started by Drew deVault (again in his free time), who is often quite vocal against corporate control.
In fact the large desktop environments, which are much more under "corporate control", were comparitavely slow to adapt wayland IIRC.
So instead of repeating this accusation, maybe actually give some evidence?
I thought everybody knew Wayland was started by some people working on Xorg already; I did not mean to imply otherwise. Many or all were paid for their work. They believed Wayland was a better approach, and, AFAIK, at some point switched to be paid full-time to work on Wayland instead of X. Which, sounds a lot like they convinced their employer (or a new employer) to pay them to work on Wayland instead of X. Do you believe this is a fair summary of the situation?
Sorry for my combatitive before. I definitely interpreted your previous post differently and I think your clarification is a fairer assessment of the situation. I would still argue that the majority of people implementing the wayland protocol are not paid by their employers to do so (this might now have changed a bit with smithay, which is sponsored by system76 I believe).
Then you'd be wrong. Freedesktop is essentially RedHat and friends.