Can a GNOME application be automated? How?

Question

Can a GNOME application be automated? I.e., can I programatically interact with its user inteface?

How?

Answer 1

You should take a look at DBus.

Answer 2

While specifically designed to test GUIs, dogtail provides the functionality you are looking for.

Answer 3

While I don't know much about it, try looking into ATK. I know there was a project a while back called facade (part of FVWM?) that used ATK to figure out the logical elements of an application and interact with and modify them.