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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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 <dog1489@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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" <red.hamsterx@xxxxxxxxx> 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" <pdickeybeta@xxxxxxxxx> 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" <joern.schoenyan@xxxxxx>
>> 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.
>> > >
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