What is the rationale behind removing the xtrap extension. Doing some reading
on this indicates that the Xtrap extension allows synthesis of X input events
and capture of X events. It seems as though it would be important to be able to
capture both incoming events from a client and to be able simulate input events
to a client. The capture of events from a client could be important in allowing
text to be captured for a screen reader device. The sending of an event to a
client could be important for voice recognition and ocr software. Has anyone
considered this? What existing clients might be broken by the removal of this
extension?
It is also important to provide a security model for such interclient
interactions. The user should be able to choose what clients can access which
other clients communication streams. In some cases capture and synthesis is
critical in the case of screen readers for the blind, OCR and voice
recognition. In other cases, it could be harmful, allow for malicious password
sniffing and execution of commands in xterm windows by bad clients.
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