[virt-tools-list] [PATCH virt-viewer 2/2] RFC: resize: simplify and isolate fullscreen aspect logic

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 04:18:59PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 04:38:46PM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau at redhat.com>
> > 
> > Tbh, I don't understand the purpose of this code (both spice and vnc
> > widgets keep the aspect ration), I would welcome some comments. I am not
> > sure why we check fullscreen display resolution in window mode either,
> > so I moved the code in if (priv->fullscreen)
> > 
> > If it's possible, this code should be removed (surrouding with if 0
> > doesn't seem to change anything here with spice or vnc). Please help me
> > to understand that logic.
> > ---
> >  src/virt-viewer-window.c | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
> >  1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
> 
> When the guest resolution exceeds the host resolution we need to scale
> to ensure we can see the full extent of the guest desktop. If I remove
> this code, then as you say, there doesn't appear to be any functional
> impact. When the guest resizes, the window resizes sensibly every time,
> scaling when too large.
> 
> The caveat is that this only works corretly with GTK-3.0 If I build
> virt-viewer for GTK-2.0 then the window size isn't limited by GTK
> and exceeds the size of the desktop. So this code is basically
> working around a limitation fo GTK-2.0

BTW, when RHEL-7.0 is finally released I suggest that we could /
should drop support for GTK-2.0, at which point this discussion
point becomes moot, since GTK-3.0 will already do the right thing
itself

Regards,
Daniel
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