On Monday 06 January 2014 00:48 James Mugford wrote: > Great, this sounds hopeful. > > Do you know if there are there any permission issues surrounding this?
I doubt so. As mentioned in https://together.jolla.com/question/9670/api-security-model/ the current security model is QA, Unix permissions and general rep ;) And you can do it as user nemo so it *should* work. > For example, do you think this would work as a regular application on > end consumer devices? I can't give a qualified answer to that, sorry. > On 05/01/14 23:21, Thomas Tanghus wrote: > > On Sunday 05 January 2014 13:42 James Mugford wrote: > >> Is it technically possible to create an app that can take a screenshot > >> of the home screen or device viewport? > >> > >> It is for the purpose of creating something technologically similar to a > >> water screen saver. > > > > I've no big knowledge of the subject, but I guess the easiest approach is > > to use dbus to grab the screenshot. > > > > From the "grabscreen" script on the device, the cli command is something > > like: > > dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.nemomobile.lipstick \ > > > > /org/nemomobile/lipstick/screenshot > > org.nemomobile.lipstick.saveScreenshot string:"$filename"> > > Where $filename is the file to save to. Maybe other methods than > > saveScreenshot is available? I have no idea how to query for available -- Med venlig hilsen / Best Regards Thomas Tanghus _______________________________________________ SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list
