Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Hefee <he...@debian.org> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org, he...@debian.org, sthiba...@debian.org
* Package name : gnome-ponytail-daemon Version : 0.0.11 Upstream Contact: Olivier Fourdan <ofour...@redhat.com> * URL : https://gitlab.gnome.org/ofourdan/gnome-ponytail-daemon * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Python, Meson, C Description : Helper daemon for dogtail on Wayland On X11, dogtail relies on XTest extension to generate pointer and keyboard events, but there is no equivalent on Wayland. . On GNOME on Wayland, however, there are the screen-cast and remote-desktop APIs that can be used for controlling the keyboard and pointer. . Also, Wayland does not expose global coordinates, and ATK will return local coordinates of the various application widgets on Wayland, this is where the RecordWindow method from screencast can be used, as it will translate global coordinates into surface relative coordinates. . Obviously, to be able to record or a given window, one needs a way to identify such a window, this is where the window-list API comes in. . The Introspect D-BUS API in mutter provides a way to list all toplevel windows. Dogtail on Wayland needs ponytail to function properly (see #1084134). I intend to package it under the GNOME maintainership, if that is possible (as the source code is in the gitlab of GNOME). @Samuel Thibault: you as dogtail maintainer: As it is connected to dogtail, it somehow does not makes sense to make it more difficult for you to reach the code ;) You can already look the package, that I started packaging: https://salsa.debian.org/hefee/gnome-ponytail-daemon.git regards, hefee
