Clients reading their surface position on screen

[Thomas Voß]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 5:05 AM, Christopher James Halse Rogers
<chris at cooperteam.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 7:11 AM, Thomi Richards
> <thomi.richards at canonical.com> wrote:
> …
>>
>>
>> This may, or may not all be true, but none of it helps solve the problem
>> :)
>>
>>
>> I think this conversation is drifting away from the original point. Are
>> there any strong objections to making the existing Qt API "just work" on
>> mir?
>
>
> Fundamentally I think the strong objection is that we cannot make the Qt API
> work *in general*. There is not necessarily a 1-1 mapping of
> client-coordinate-space to screen-space.
>
> Much of the time there will be such a mapping, but we'd prefer to not expose
> an API that's going to mysteriously fail some of the time.
>

Seconded!

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