Bug 439971

Summary:	Support GUI automation (say autokey) based on xdg-portal permissions like Screenshots currently use it
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Lyubomir <liubomirwm>
Component:	wayland-generic	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	kde
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description Lyubomir 2021-07-17 13:45:36 UTC

SUMMARY
Suggestion: Support GUI automation in Wayland under a permission. This is the same security model as the screenshots feature currently used. Presumably it uses xdg-desktop-portal to allow/deny requests.

https://github.com/autokey/autokey

Useful for automating tasks that need to be done routinely and would take a good number of hours daily if done by hand.

Comment 1 Lyubomir 2021-07-17 14:21:05 UTC

Apparently there is https://gitlab.com/dogtail/dogtail for GNOME which presumably is/should be using https://gitlab.gnome.org/ofourdan/gnome-ponytail-daemon which uses some GNOME functionality for screen sharing, but i don't know of any KDE equivalent.

Comment 2 David Edmundson 2021-07-20 11:50:45 UTC

We do implement that portal interface. 

Please reopen if you can explain what needs fixing