<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - It is impossible to screenshot a user selected window." href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99635#c6">Comment # 6</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - It is impossible to screenshot a user selected window." href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99635">bug 99635</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:daniel@fooishbar.org" title="Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>"> Daniel Stone</a> <pre>(In reply to naelstrof from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=99635#c5">comment #5</a>) > Oh I want to clarify: Input grabbing is completely unnecessary. The wayland > port of slop just covers the whole screen as a fullscreen application which > works great. > Slop just needs a way to know where windows are in relation to the pointer. > In X11 slop can simply ask for all surfaces intersecting with the pointer. ... that doesn't work for windows which are currently occluded. For that reason, Chrome's screencasting offers a grid view of all current top-level windows, with previews. This to me seems a far better approach than xwininfo-style get-window-under-pointer. > Maybe the extension could be similar, where compositors could be pretty > clever with it and make it return actual windows when hovering over a window > list on a task bar, or on a mini-window inside of a workspace. Sure, but then a malicious app could use that to just get all windows all the time, which wouldn't be fun. I'd much rather see something like the Flatpak document portal: <a href="http://flatpak.org/xdg-desktop-portal/portal-docs.html#gdbus-org.freedesktop.portal.FileChooser">http://flatpak.org/xdg-desktop-portal/portal-docs.html#gdbus-org.freedesktop.portal.FileChooser</a> The compositor could then present a list of windows to select from (in whichever manner it feels is appropriate), and either provide a screenshot or cast immediately. This makes the intent unambiguous, sidestepping the security issue, and also avoids the indirection in your suggestion. tl;dr the request should be 'I would like to shot/cast a window'; let the compositor sort the rest</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>