> This is kind of the problem, though. X11's model of 'everything can access everything' is obviously bad,
It's neither bad nor good. That's the default. All the "no security" cries are nothing more than whining (not a single person has been harmed in 20 years). If security features were so necessary, people would have been implementing them a long time ago - https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/xorg-docs/specs/Xserv....
> but when wayland went with a more restrictive model they didn't provide a means for legitimate functionality like this
Furthermore, this model is embedded in the core architecture and cannot be fixed except by crutches.
It's neither bad nor good. That's the default. All the "no security" cries are nothing more than whining (not a single person has been harmed in 20 years). If security features were so necessary, people would have been implementing them a long time ago - https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/xorg-docs/specs/Xserv....
> but when wayland went with a more restrictive model they didn't provide a means for legitimate functionality like this
Furthermore, this model is embedded in the core architecture and cannot be fixed except by crutches.