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> the whole system is incapable of providing such feature in pluggable way No, the system is perfectly capable, it's just hard to get all compositor authors to
by floatboth 5y ago
> the whole system is incapable of providing such feature in pluggable way
No, the system is perfectly capable, it's just hard to get all compositor authors to agree on a common protocol (and to agree that it's necessary in the first place). Big DEs especially prioritize regular-user usability features (e.g. currently lots of work on IMEs) rather than fancy nerd customizations that don't always need to be a common external program that works with all compositors (is it really a problem to write a plugin for your DE specifically? No!).
- p_l 5y agoNo, the system is designed for centralizing everything in one process, and biggest pusher is uninterested in cooperating with anyone else. And ability to have global hotkeys is not fancy nerd customization. Writing a plugin is also a much more harrowing experience when any bug might take down your entire graphics stack due to above mentioned centralization by design.