Post #3560002

2026-07-03 14:14 UTC

Two years ago, a Wayland protocol discussion happened in service of password managers. The KeePassXC folks were involved It could’ve been good! Discussion died a few months later… perhaps from exhaustion with the process. Well, two weeks ago KeePassXC landed Wayland support, but it uses the same old techniques as X11 - sending literal keystroke sequences - instead of a better-but-does-not-exist interface. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/work_items/184 https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/pull/13359/changes

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@vimpostor@infosec.exchange 2026-07-03 15:57

@whack@hachyderm.io The Portals implementation did not only not improve on the X11 implementation, it's also missing half of the features, e.g. they omit passing along the window title, which defeats the whole purpose of the feature, as now you always have to search manually. I call it the consensus of clowns, somehow they keep taking the worst parts of X11, throw away the good parts, then later resort to add workaround out-of-band API for all the things they missed. Compare that to when I implemented KeepassXC support for Arcan a year ago, where it's not only possible to keep feature parity with X11, but actually improve on the UX in meaningful ways. The tragedy of Wayland is quite sad; honestly if I had known the path the Linux desktop would eventually embark on when I switched from Windows over 10 years ago, then I would probably never have bothered in the first place.

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