Comment 1 for bug 1232054

Hi - some more information about what we need:

at a minimum, we need the X and Y resolution of the screen.

If at all possible, making the existing ubuntu platform api bindings "just work" would be the best solution - it would require zero changes in autopilot. Second best would be a dbus API, on a well-defined dbus connection name that exposes the information we need.

Additional information that will come in useful in the future (probably not worth adding now though) includes screen position, additional screen information (relative location, rotation etc).

Finally, in the future we're likely to need more things like this from the shell (off the top of my head: input bindings (tracked in a separate bug), screen capture & video recording services, application API (essentially replacing BAMF)), so maybe there's some things you can do now to make this easier for yourself in the future?

Cheers,