Clients reading their surface position on screen

[Gerry Boland]

On 15/08/14 00:56, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Gerry Boland
> <gerry.boland at 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