[QGIS-Developer] QGIS Screen Recording Request on macOS

[Denis Rouzaud]

Le mer. 11 déc. 2019 à 23:19, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> a
écrit :

> On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 at 11:02, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All
> >
> > I got a strange security popup on my Mac today saying QGIS 3.10 would
> like permission to record my screen:
> >
> > I know that these messages can often be related to non-obvious
> functionality such as colour pickers etc. but it is a bit alarming. Has
> anyone else encountered this / does anyone have an explanation for what is
> going on?
>
> The color picker is the only thing I'm aware of in QGIS which is
> grabbing the screen contents.
>

There is also QgsAppScreenShot
It was added to make screenshot for the documentation, but the projet did
not go further since it appears not to be the best way.
The class was left though. If it's the one bringing this message, I'd
suggest dropping it.

>
> I'm not sure why this message won't only suddenly be appearing now
> though. I suspect its' either:
> 1. A macos update has changed something
> 2. A qt update means that the qt method we use to grab a portion of
> the screen to sample colors has changed behavior on macos
>
> The message is rather misleading though -- if it said "capture part of
> the screen" rather then "record" I'd be happier. FWIW, I think we'll
> need to eventually change the API used to do the color picking on
> linux sessions running with wayland, which will result in a similar
> warning message. Not sure about Windows, but I suspect at some stage
> the security risk of allowing any application to grab whole desktop
> screenshots will eventually result in similar warnings being shown....
>
> Nyall
>
>
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Tim Sutton
> > tim at qgis.org
> >
> >
> >
> >
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