Hi, now it is most likely I'm really wide of the mark,..... But as QA tester, they now are building a suite of automated tests[1]. These can deal with where the 'mouse is', press the button etc. Maybe have a chat with devs working on that?
Regards, Phill. 1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/AutoPilot On 16 July 2013 23:59, Thomas Corwin <[email protected]> wrote: > I understand now. I am trying to learn the Python language so I can help > more with it... As most know I am a .NET Developer for the Microsoft > platform... I will still do the best I can to help, I just won't be the > most experienced of the group. > > Thomas Corwin > > On Jul 16, 2013, at 6:39 PM, "Neil Tallim" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Glade is pretty much the standard for rapid development in GTK and it's > pretty resilient against changes within major versions, since it wraps GTK, > which tries to maintain a stable API. > > The issue here is probably that GTK 3.x is largely incompatible with 2.x, > hence the need for an update. > > The only thing that's internally dependent on GTK, aside from the Quickly > framework, is gobject, which is used to capture the rendered windows or > desktop. There are alternatives to this, like asking the X sever directly, > but they'll have a good deal of integration logic to go with them, to > figure out where windows are. Advancements in the Freedesktop.org spec > may have simplified this over the past couple of years, however. > > -Neil > On Jul 16, 2013 4:10 PM, "Patrick Dickey" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Thomas, >> >> I think what Jörn is saying is that whenever they make changes to GTK, >> then Glade breaks. So it would be easier/better? to find a different >> wrapper. >> >> Have a great day.:) >> Patrick. >> >> On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 02:47 -0400, Thomas Corwin wrote: >> > Sorry to bring up an old problem, but Glade is 100% compatible with >> QuickShot, except that the code needs to be updated to GTK3+ >> > >> > Sent from my iPhone >> > >> > > On Jun 15, 2013, at 7:34 AM, "Jörn Schönyan" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > > >> > > I'm sorry, I can't find your thread about it. If I'm correct, the >> problem is related to Glade (which is, more or less, a wrapper around GTK). >> That would be a real mess, even if this issue is fixed, it's likely to grow >> incompatible again with the next major version of GTK3. >> > > >> > > Am 15.06.2013 01:21, schrieb Patrick Dickey: >> > >> Hi Jörn, >> > >> >> > >> I'll put it in the wishlist (but as you said, it's a low priority >> thing >> > >> right now). If you're able to go through the archives, sometime in >> March >> > >> I tried getting Quickshot to work on 12.04 and documented a few of >> the >> > >> issues that I had. Also Thomas looked into it, and found that it's >> tied >> > >> to Py-GTK2 and Ubuntu/Lubuntu/etc is using Py-GTK3 now. So it needs >> to >> > >> be updated to use those commands. >> > >> >> > >> I cc'ed Thomas in on this, so he knows that you're working on this >> too. >> > >> Either the two of you can co-ordinate, or he can let you take the >> reins >> > >> (just a suggestion of course). Just trying to make sure we don't have >> > >> two (or more) people trying to reinvent the same wheel. >> > >> >> > >> Have a great weekend.:) >> > >> Patrick. >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual >> > > Post to : [email protected] >> > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual >> > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual >> > Post to : [email protected] >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
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