Re: [gtk-vnc-devel] Scaling feature

[Frederik Himpe <fhimpe telenet be>]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:49:29AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 06:00:50PM +0800, Halton Huo wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > As I know, gtk-vnc used gtkglext to support scaling feature, but from
> > configure.ac, it seems use cario instead. Am I correct?
> 
> We ditched gtkglext because it was a total pain to deal with and had
> poor support under X compositing. Cairo now does all scaling and is
> just as fast since it can use 2d hardware acceleration.

On Mandriva's bugzilla, a user requested building gtk-vnc with gtkglext,
in order to allow resizing in vinagre. So gtkglext is not needed to be able
to resize? Or is this only true for a not yet released version?

https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=45700

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Frederik Himpe