Clients reading their surface position on screen
Christopher James Halse Rogers
chris at cooperteam.net
Fri Aug 15 07:17:11 UTC 2014
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Gerry Boland
<gerry.boland at 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.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
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” ☺.
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