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ePrivacy Screen and GNOME

Basic implementation

  • mutter
    • monitors the changes to the DRM property and exposes it via a DBus property to the rest of the desktop
    • monitors org.gnome.desktop.privacy's privacy-screen gsettings value and try to reflect the option on the device (if it supports software-changes)
    • Emits a privacy-screen-changed property with a purpose argument when changes happen (if trigggered by us for security purposes, hotkey or gsettings)
    • Emits a show-osd signal to make the shell to show the relative popup
  • gnome-settings-daemon
    • via a new gsd-display-daemon (?! - to be discussed, but ideally it's like this to be reused by brightness settings too)
    • synchronizes the value with gsettings
    • tells the shell to show an OSD
  • gnome-shell
    • Reacts to mutter signal and based o that shows the relative OSD
  • gnome-control-center
    • shows a related option if there's a screen in the system supporting this technology (can be unsensitive if the hardware has not software toggle support).

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