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 ... -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
