[virt-tools-list] [PATCH] Update geometry when enabling/disabling displays

Fabiano Fidêncio fabiano at fidencio.org
Mon Mar 16 20:02:24 UTC 2015


On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma at redhat.com> wrote:
> I discussed this with Fabiano on IRC a little bit, and my feeling is
> that this is not the ideal place to handle this case. However, when
> trying to write a patch that seemed more "correct" to me
> (http://paste.fedoraproject.org/196405/1833114/), it introduced a
> regression[1] that does not occur with Fabiano's patch. So I guess I'd
> tentatively ACK Fabiano's patch since it appears to work without
> regressions. The alternative is to spend the time investigating why my
> patch fails, but I suspect that will be a lot of work, and the behavior
> may be different on gtk2 vs gtk3, etc.  Anyone else have opinions on the
> matter?
>
> Jonathon
>
> [1] When virt-viewer started up, the display windows would appear at the
> correct size and then immediately shrink to a very small size. This is a
> fairly common regression that keeps cropping up from time to time.
> Perhaps some day we can re-factor this whole thing to make it less
> susceptible to these sorts of regressions, but I fear that may be a lot
> of work, and may not even be possible (especially while we have to
> support both gtk2 and gtk3)...

As we had no objections in 5 days, I have pushed the patch to the git master.

Best Regards,
--
Fabiano Fidêncio




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