Re: [gtk-vnc-devel] Thumbnailing API?

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange redhat com>]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 11:57:39AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 
> > I ask because I'm a day or two away from having a patch that does 
> > software scaling for GTK-VNC.
> 
> /me whisples OpenGL ...
> 
> For scaling up for fullscreen display you probably want do it in
> hardware if possible.  Place the vnc framebuffer into a texture, let
> OpenGL scale it up ...

You know I was thinking about this just the other day. I was trying to figure
out a way to have an alternate GTK widget which renders the VNC buffer onto
an open GL surface. And then display all the VNC consoles for all my virtual
machines on a 3-D spinning cube like Compiz/Beryl :-)

> My vnc client based on crappy libvncserver can do that, code is here:
> http://et.redhat.com/~kraxel/xenwatch/vnc.c

I'll take a look thanks.

Regards,
Dan.
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