Re: Fullscreen?

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

On Mo, 2011-11-07 at 20:36 +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Jens Georg <mail jensge org> wrote:
> > On Mo, 2011-11-07 at 19:52 +0800, "Andy Green (林安廸)" wrote:
> >
> > Yes, I also want an option to have a properly scaled aspect-aware
> > full-screen mode, however...
> >
> >> >   You are correct that a lot of people use it and its still being
> >> > maintained/developed but very few people use it as media renderer
> >> > AFAIK. Most people use it as a media server. BTW, Rygel has support
> >> > for MPRIS2 and any player that supports that is exposed as media
> >> > renderer by Rygel so you might want to explore that option. Adding
> >> > that support to totem is somewhere on my todo list.
> >>
> >> OK but it does do media rendering and it does show signs of doing it
> >> well actually, since it wisely decided to leverage all the gstreamer work.
> >
> > And there lies the problem. It's just a front-end to gstreamer's
> > playbin2 which then uses autovideosink. If you have a solution for
> > making that go full-screen without depending on sth. like libwnck/GTK+
> > etc. I'm happy to accept it. Should be configurable, because starting
> > full-screen would really annoy me when I use it for debugging purposes.
> 
>    I have a better solution: we should:
> 
> 1. Fix the 'full-screen toggle on F11' if its broken.

It isn't, it's not supposed to work with autovideosink, it's apparently
supposed to be handled by the app and we need some help (external lib)
for that. 

> 2. Save the full-screen status (in some gsetting key) and set that on
> playbin2 on launch.
> 
>   Then people who want full-screen always, will just have to press F11
> once and people who dont want it for some reason don't do anything.
> 
Yes, that's what I meant by configurable.