Clients reading their surface position on screen

[Luke Yelavich]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 09:42:42AM EST, Gerry Boland wrote:
> Hey folks,
> in working on QtCompositor, I stumbled across a problem ([1]).
> 
> Autopilot needs to know the position of items in an application
> (buttons, etc) in screen coordinates - not surface. It needs that as it
> generates inputs via uevent, which are defined in screen coordinates.

Qt's accessibility framework also needs to be able to present this information via at-spi to accessibility tools such as Orca.(1) This is probably something that is more to do with Qt internals working with Mir, but even though this is primarily about autopilot, keeping accessibility requirements in mind when thinking about this is probably also relevant.

Luke

(1) https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/client-unity8-a11y