Re: Status for the release

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak gnome org>]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Marc-André Lureau
<marcandre lureau gmail com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 14:43 +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
>>>
>>> > There are some issues with the scaling of the VM display. The long term
>>> > goal is that any boxes-installed vm should have the right guest drivers
>>> > to allow guest resize in a way that the guest always have the same
>>> > resolution as the boxes window. This doesn't seem to work quite
>>> > right at the moment (at least with a rawhide guest). It resizes when i
>>> > resize the window, but to a somewhat smaller resolution, and then
>>> > scaling it up a bit, making things slightly fuzzy.
>>> >
>>> > Even worse is when the guest does *not* have the right drivers/guest to
>>> > allow resizing. Then it essentially picks a random resolution (whatever
>>> > the window size is when the vm boots or installs or something) and then
>>> > we always stretch the display. This makes it impossible to resize the
>>> > window to get 1:1 pixel size, or even just the right aspect ratio. IMHO
>>> > we should *never* magnify the VM output, only ever scale it down if it
>>> > doesn't fit the current window (as scrolling a VM is a total pain).
>>> >
>>>
>>> This is less important issue, imho. If we get Christophe Windows
>>> driver installation, and update qxl & agent in f18 (which I think is
>>> planned very soon), then this will be less of a concern, since it's
>>> only an issue during installation or switching to console for example.
>>
>> Thats not true, I got no guest agent in Ubuntu or linux Mint, so it will
>> happen. Furthermore, the bug above makes it fuzzy even in the
>> guest-agent case
>
> We don't have support for those OS yet, so it's expected they are not
> supported very well..
>
> With the right drivers (tested Debian and Fedora 17 and Windows XP &
> 7), there is no fuzziness here.

I agree with Alex that we shouldn't depend on the availability of
drivers too much. If those drivers enable an enhanced user experience,
thats awesome but the user experience with unknown/unsupported OS
shouldn't be crappy.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124