On 15/08/14 08:27, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Gerry Boland > <gerry.bol...@canonical.com> wrote: > > On 15/08/14 08:17, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Gerry Boland > >> <gerry.bol...@canonical.com> wrote: > >> > On 15/08/14 00:56, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote: > >> >> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Gerry Boland > >> >> <gerry.bol...@canonical.com> wrote: > >> >> > On 14/08/14 00:31, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote: > >> >> >> Ok. I think we've explored all the relevant options > >> >> >> > >> >> >> If I implemented > >> >> >> > >> >> >> mir_debug_surface_coord_to_screen(MirSurface, int x, int y, > >> int* > >> >> outx, > >> >> >> int* outy) > >> >> >> > >> >> >> in libmirclient-debug and hooked it up to a --debug flag, > >> who would > >> >> >> object, and what would those objections be? > >> >> >> > >> >> >> > >> >> > > >> >> > And libmirclient-debug is shipped in a separate package which > >> isn't > >> >> > installed on the device by default? Just thinking how this > >> feature > >> >> will > >> >> > not be accessible to all apps. > >> >> > >> >> Correct. Also, Unity8 won't respond to these requests unless > >> started > >> >> with --debug. Which we obviously won't do by default. > >> >> > >> >> So, it's available to all apps when debugging is enabled, or no > >> apps > >> >> when debugging is not enabled. > >> >> > >> > > >> > Thomi, what do you think? Unity8 will need to be restarted with a > >> flag > >> > in order to enable this for AP. That ok? > >> > -G > >> > >> I had a talk with Thomi on IRC this morning; rather than restart Unity8 > >> with this flag we can just have Unity8 started with this flag on the CI > >> devices (and then modify the tests that restart Unity8). > >> > >> And by “we” I mean “I” ☺. > >> > > Perhaps AP could tell unity8 - go into debug mode - via dbus (hole > > poked in AppArmor required though)? Saves a restart of the process. > > Possibly? I'm aiming for minimum possible work that cleanly supports > what people want to do without making API promises we don't want to keep. > > Is restarting Unity8 a big deal? It doesn't seem so to me; perhaps > there's some background I'm missing? > Only reason I suggested the idea is that restarting unity8 would be a new thing for all app tests, and maybe sending a dbus signal would be less disruptive? But if Thomi things restarting is ok, then I'm happy.
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