[Accessibility] Need to be able to sythesize mouse events

[Giulio Camuffo]

Wayland doesn't have a way to inject mouse events currently. Some
protocol must be written, which would be presumably implemented as a
private protocol which only trusted clients can use, given the
security implications.

Giulio

2013/12/10 Piñeiro <apinheiro at igalia.com>:
> GNOME Assistive Technologies need to be able to synthesize mouse events. Use
> cases:
> * Perform a mouse button click for users who cannot use a physical mouse
> * Route the mouse pointer to an object or element to trigger its hover
> action
>
> The Orca screen reader currently provides these commands via calls to
> AT-SPI2's atspi_generate_mouse_event() which in turn calls
> spi_dec_x11_generate_mouse_event() [1]. The equivalent functionality is
> needed for Wayland environments.
>
> How are we going to accomplish this?
>
> [1]
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/at-spi2-core/tree/registryd/deviceeventcontroller-x11.c#n1404
>
> --
> Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias (apinheiro at igalia.com)
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