Gnome extension on KDE?

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:

https://codeberg.org/governorkeagan/hubstaff-linux

EDIT: I have included more files in the codeberg repo. I hope this helps.

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Looks useful. So this software detects how long you spend on what app?
This may be compositor dependent but just a guess. Thats a problem of Wayland (currently)
The port will be huge and just making the extension run not enough.
- 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.
  
  If the tracking software is open source what is stopping employees from changing source code to their advantage ?
  
  It’s not open source. I just added it to codeberg for easy sharing to ask this question
  
  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
  
  It takes screenshots that get posted to a user dashboard for management to check if needed.
  
  I don't have anything useful to say but that sounds fixing dystopian.
  
  I hope you leave easter eggs

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