> > I cant develop software that targets any reasonable range of desktop environments
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> I highly recommend Qt for this purpose.
I really appreciate your comment. QT is a great framework doing a lot of heavy lifting. However, the accessibility software I help maintain needs the ability to know what windows are in the foreground, all applications running and emulating key/text/mouse input in any of those running applications. Wayland is antithetical to those features by design.
I can see your point with QT for standalone applications. However, with interacting with other applications I'm not sure QT can solve the issue.
If you target just one Wayland compositor, I think this is possible. I mean, each Wayland compositor is basically a display server. The trouble is the Wayland protocol itself doesn't necessarily provide all the tools for this (it does provide some, particularly in conjunction with systems like pipewire and portals).
But, for example, I think kwin can definitely do this.
I really appreciate your comment. QT is a great framework doing a lot of heavy lifting. However, the accessibility software I help maintain needs the ability to know what windows are in the foreground, all applications running and emulating key/text/mouse input in any of those running applications. Wayland is antithetical to those features by design.
I can see your point with QT for standalone applications. However, with interacting with other applications I'm not sure QT can solve the issue.