I know the title sounds a little strange but hear me out. The time tracking software I use for work doesn’t work on Wayland, unless I’m using Gnome as my DE. They have an extension that allows it to work in this case. Personally, I don’t enjoy Gnome on my desktop (I use it on my laptop). Is there a way for me to get the functionality that this extension provides on KDE so that I can use Wayland on my desktop as well?

Time tracking software:

Linux install script:

EDIT: I have included more files in the codeberg repo. I hope this helps.

  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
    12·
    3 months ago

    Looks useful. So this software detects how long you spend on what app?

    This may be compositor dependent but just a guess. Thats a problem of Wayland (currently)

    The port will be huge and just making the extension run not enough.

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
      5·
      3 months ago

      Wayland doesn’t need to be a problem. The extension is running within Gnome, after all. Existing code will need to be rewritten, but extensions at this privilege level should be more than capable of doing what this program is doing.

      In theory someone could write a GJS wrapper to get basic Gnome extensions to run on KDE but if there’s any kind of GUI modification/interaction involved, things will quickly break down.

    • governorkeagan@lemdro.idOPEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      Pretty much. My company has it set to track the following:

      • Periodic screenshots
      • Mouse and keyboard activity
      • Apps used
      • URLs visited

      All of this is combined to determine how active you were (as a percentage), you can then try and determine how much time was spent on productive vs non-productive work. However, we use it as a glorified timesheet.

      • sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        3 months ago

        If the tracking software is open source what is stopping employees from changing source code to their advantage ?

      • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
        3·
        3 months ago

        I dont think they actually take screenshots, do they? That would be awfully inefficient. You can get the window titles in better ways.

        the URL stuff should use a browser extension to tell them that name.

        If that app really takes screenshots and extracts URLs from them, it is pretty overcomplex. But that improves platform-independence a lot