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.

  • governorkeagan@lemdro.idOPEnglish
    41·
    5 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_raEnglish
      6·
      5 months ago

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

      • governorkeagan@lemdro.idOPEnglish
        51·
        5 months ago

        It’s not open source. I just added it to codeberg for easy sharing to ask this question

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
      3·
      5 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