For those wanting to build a Wayland-only Linux desktop experience without carrying any aging X11 baggage, GNOME 47 will be able to optionally offer Wayland-only support without carrying X11/X.Org support. This Mutter merge request landed today that allows compiling Mutter with X11 support disabled. That landed today along with this GNOME Shell merge request for being able to disable X11 support too.

      • Possibly linuxEnglish
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        3 days ago

        The actual implementation would be per desktop. The desktop draws to the screen and then the apps connect to the desktop. We already have a window capture XDG portal that is used by things like OBS. We could huild a simular portal for just text on the screen. We would just need some way of either recognizing text or even better some sort of image to text engine like what is in Firefox.

          • Possibly linuxEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            It would work for images as well. It doesn’t need to be exclusively used but sometimes text is rendered at a pixel level.

        • Tobias Frisch@wehavecookies.social
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          3 days ago

          @possiblylinux127 I feel like image to text processing would require unnecessary resources in many cases and have potential wrong recognitions.

          Wouldn’t it make more sense to have some sort of extension to Wayland that allows annotations containing the text for screen readers? So toolkits like GTK and Qt could simply annotate text of labels, buttons and other widgets, avoiding image to text processing.