[Spice-devel] Floating windows?

[David Jaša]

On Ne, 2014-11-16 at 16:25 +0100, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
> Hey Todd,
> 
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 5:48 AM, ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo at zoho.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Please excuse if this is dumb question.  I have seen the way
> > Parallels operates on Mac.  Instead of opening up a window
> > with the whole of Windows inside, Parallels will float just
> > the application in the host's desktop.  Makes for a lot
> > less clutter.
> >
> > Is there anything like this in our future?  (I know
> > you can do this with X11 and SSH on Linux VM's,
> > but it is slow and Windows doesn't support it.)
> >
> 
> It's something that I'd love to see implemented. Although, for now
> (talking about short-term future), I don't see myself work on this
> (but I cannot speak for the others working on Spice).
> 

IIRC what virtualbox uses to achieve this feature is to draw all windows
in the one big desktop and cut them out of it - quite a hack if indeed
true.

I think that solving this problem well would need cooperation with
window manager and composition manager and it would also allow host of
optimizations in normal mode with guest root windows: way less traffic
on WM animations, no redraws on window movement, no discard & re-send of
graphics on pop-up & dismiss, scaling down of windows server-side for
windows previes (gnome-shell's overview and windows aero alt-tab) and so
on...

David

> > Many thanks,
> > -T
> >
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> 
> Best Regards,