Portal for getting screen coordinates based on a selection

[SeaDve]

Similar to gnome shell screenshot's SelectArea method

[matthiasclasen]

What would you do with such coordinates?

[SeaDve]

for screen recording etc.

it is related to #582, but allowing individual screen selection gives more granular control

[warningnonpotablewater]

So what you're proposing is delivering compositor-local coordinates to the client after the user selected an arbitrary area of the screen? I fail to find a use case for such a feature, especially considering compositor-local coordinates of something would be completely useless on Wayland unless the compositor supports a protocol that allows something useful to be done with the coordinates (such as wlr-foreign-toplevel-management or wlr-virtual-pointer), in which case you could just use a tool specific for such compositor (such as slurp). I don't think such a specific feature belongs in a portal.

[SeaDve]

thanks for explaining, i understood, i think i should close it

[SeaDve]

btw @kirbykevinson doesn't slurp is on xwayland?

Edit: nvm

Edit 2: It seems to only work on sway, maybe it would be better if it works on most if not all