Clients reading their surface position on screen

[Gerry Boland]

On 13/08/14 13:59, Daniel d'Andrada wrote:
> I've yet another suggestion:
> 
> unity8 provides a D-Bus API for autopilot to ask "hey, what's the
> position/transformation of surface X?". Then AP would apply that
> transformation to a surface local coordinate and send the resulting
> global coordinate through evdev.
> 
> advantages:
>  - we don't hassle mir
>  - AP still send its input events through evdev, which exercises the
> whole input stack
> 
> disadvantages:
>  - more work to autopilot and unity8
> 

This was option 1 in the original email, and disliked greatly by Thomi.
It requires AP punching open appArmor rules between clients & unity8
when running tests. DBus has much greater latency. Also would require
notion of surface ID, which Mir folks also dislike.

I left it out of further discussion as a result.
-G

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