Gala: Developer API for Picture in Picture

[hanaral]

This would be very good for everyone who likes PiP, but wants something that integrates directly in to the desktop with play/pause and everything. I’m not sure about the specifics of how it would be done, although I would assume gala would need a way of streaming the video content directly from the app without rendering the original.
This may not be feasible for now, but I’m willing to bet it’s possible.

[cassidyjames]

Another option could be to just let an app define a region of its window to be drawn in PiP, and then Gala would handle Picture-In-Picture as it does today—or better, with #658 implemented.

[danrabbit]

I think there's an open issue for a Granite media player widget as well. That would make implementing PIP much more straight forward as we could use a gstreamer sink directly and not need to do any window capture

[stsdc]

I'm wondering if i can do PiP for Monitor to show some important cpu, ram etc. charts 🤔
might be useful

or is it only for media?

[hanaral]

I'm wondering if i can do PiP for Monitor to show some important cpu, ram etc. charts
might be useful

or is it only for media?

I meant this feature request to be something similar to the PiP API iOS has, since it would allow developers for elementary to have a native way of 'popping out' the media player in an app.