Bug 439971 - Support GUI automation (say autokey) based on xdg-portal permissions like Screenshots currently use it
Summary: Support GUI automation (say autokey) based on xdg-portal permissions like Scr...
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: kwin
Classification: Plasma
Component: wayland-generic (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
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Assignee: KWin default assignee
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Reported: 2021-07-17 13:45 UTC by Lyubomir
Modified: 2021-07-20 11:50 UTC (History)
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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