Re: Help with Gcolor3

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On 10/25/17 12:05 PM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> On 25 October 2017 at 09:40, Listings - www.majors-welt.net
> <listing majors-welt net> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > i write here, because i dont know where it may fit.
> You probably want to start a discussion on wayland-devel:
>    https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
>
> This list is for developing GTK applications.
Thanks, i will consider it.
> > I am a user of a color-picker tool - previously Gcolor2 - that has now been
> > adopted to Gnome3 -> Gcolor3 -> https://github.com/Hjdskes/gcolor3/
> >
> > Now while lots of linux distributions are switching to wayland as default
> > session the color picking just dont work any more (which breaks the workflow
> > of web and other developers) - even not in gimp afaik.
> Correct; the idea is that only privileged components can access the
> contents of the screen, and that applications need an appropriate
> privilege escalation mechanism, usually by talking to those components
> through a well-defined IPC mechanism, like DBus or a Wayland protocol
> extension. Starting from a sandboxed environment and opening it up
> appropriately is safer and more secure than having an open system and
> closing it down.
Yes, i know why this happens and i agree with that.

But thinking from my position as user, its is it going to be -> pick 
color, enter password, -> pick color, enter password, -> pick color, 
enter password, and so on?

this will be 4 times more time consuming at working with colors.

> > The developer of Gcolor3 has no straight idea how to fix this (and maybe
> > some "wayland-api" is neccessary?)
> You probably want to start with a compositor-specific API, like the
> way screenshot and screen recording is performed in GNOME; if you want
> more Wayland compositors to follow the same protocol, you will have to
> draft the specification and discuss it on wayland-devel in order to
> get buy in from all the developers of Wayland compositors out there.
Where is a documentation about it?
> Ciao,
>   Emmanuele.

greets, Tom