brainstorming for UDS-N - Application Developers

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 05:39:19PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Oct 01, 2010, at 05:27 PM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) wrote:
> >On 01/10/2010 17:03, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> >> Apologies for replying out of order, but you know what I'd *love* to
> >> see?  A "desktop developer" mode where every visible window had a
> >> button you could click on that would tell you exactly what binary
> >> owns the window, what binary package that is part of, what source
> >> package it comes from, *and* a button to download (read: bzr
> >> branch :) the source branch for it.  Maybe even a button to submit a
> >> bug report right there.
> >
> >Something like that wouldn't take long at all to script up, why not
> >just go ahead and do it :)
> 
> I'm fairly certain I could write most of the backend code for that, but I
> personally have no idea how to hook it into the ui.  And please don't ask me
> to design the ui. :)

It'd be easier to do as a single button (panel applet or whatever) that
got you to click on a window and then did the appropriate things for
that, rather than trying to add a button to each window.  The natural
prototype implementation of this would start with xprop, and it already
gives you a crosshair to click on the window you wanted ...

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]