Re: What to do with vino

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----- Original Message -----
> On Wed, 2016-11-16 at 10:36 +0100, Jiri Eischmann wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I was going through most frequent crashers in Fedora 25 and vino is in
> > TOP10. When I looked at it I realized it crashed on Wayland because for
> >  screen sharing you need X. [1]
> > It's a bit unfortunate that we have vino, which by default doesn't
> > work, in the default installation and its functionality is exposed in
> > Control Center. I wonder if it'd make a sense to patch the sharing
> > module in the control center to check if the session is running on
> > Wayland and if so, to disable the dialog.
> > 
> > My understanding is that screen sharing is moving to the compositor or
> > Pinos [2] and vino will be deprecated, but in the meantime we shouldn't
> > expose its functionality on Wayland.
> 
> Yes, please do something like this. If we'd found it earlier I would
> actually nominate it as a blocker as violation of 'All applications
> that can be launched using the standard graphical mechanism of a
> release-blocking desktop after a default installation of that desktop
> must start successfully and withstand a basic functionality test.', but
> I don't think I'm going to rock the boat and do it now. Having it as a
> 0-day update would be very good, though.

It doesn't match the "using the standard graphical mechanism". Vino only
appears as a toggle in the Sharing Settings, not in the applications list.
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