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But it shows that all this is still in an early stage as I hit quite some bugs, probably the most egregious (maybe even somewhat funny) one is KDE's kwin_wayland crashing if you hover the cursor over any window close button while screen recording [5], sadly it doesn't seem to be fixed yet. For some more bugs I've hit, see [6].
Something I am a little worried about is that flatpak with their xdg-desktop-portal [7] is now responsible for the de facto standard how screen recording is negotiated on Wayland. I fear that this means if flatpak does not need a feature, even if it makes sense in another context, it probably won't ever be implemented. For example something I require for my project are proper window names and their position as well as size, but apparently this is nothing essential for flatpak and the issues I have opened have largely been ignored [8]. This is by no means meant as an accusation, just an observations that things are not all good.
[1]: https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus/issues/3#issuecomment-652670...
The weird screenshot thing also leads to confusing issues like this one: https://github.com/flathub/us.zoom.Zoom/issues/223. Zoom for some reason tries to avoid sharing its own windows by using an X window property that specifies the owning PID, so it filters out any window where `_NET_WM_PID == Zoon's PID`. Many different applications can think they have the same PID in modern Linux desktops when applications are sandboxed, so it ends up randomly filtering out other applications.
Not sharing its own windows is nice and all, but I don't think Zoom even does that on other platforms. It's weird how much effort they have put in to doing the wrong thing.